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Types and Market Classes of Live Stock 



tive gait. Many trainers do not favor it, for the liorse easily falls into 

 the habit of taking the true pace which is not a desirable saddle gait 

 because it is rough and uncomfortable. The true pace is the worst 

 gait a saddle horse can possess; the rider cannot rise to it and save 

 himself as in a trot. 



The fox trot is a slow, short-striding trot. It is not so popular as 

 the running walk. It is a broken-time gait and difficult to describe. 

 Some riders, when asked to exhibit the fox trot, simply restrain their 



h'lr, ]: . The three-gaited saddle type. Connoisseur, an excellent type of 

 walk, trot, canter horse, owned by William Ritter, Columbus, Ohio. 



horses to as slow a trot as possible, seeking to pass that off as a fox 

 trot, but the true fox trot is not accompanied by restraint. 



The running walk is a slow gait, as are also the slow pace and fox 

 trot. The running walk is faster than a flat-foot walk and is taught 

 by gently urging the horse out of the ordinary walk, but restraining 

 him from a trot or rack. It is intermediate between the walk and rack. 

 The movement of the legs is more rapid than in a walk, but in about 

 the same rhythm. The true running walk is usually characterized by 

 a bobbing or nodding of the head, and, in some instances, by a flopping 



