126 The Trot. 



knee up, the haunches bent, springy and pliant, 

 the step measuring exact distances, and making a 

 regular time of one, two, the measure of which 

 depends on the animation, restriction, or rapidity 

 of the action. By these qualities, the horse is 

 capacitated to work freely to right or left, on 

 circles, without falsifying his step, or breaking his 

 time. 



In the trot, as in the gallop, the horse leads 

 with a foot, either right or left, by which the lead- 

 ing side is a little more advanced than the other. 

 This nice discrimination is observed only by those 

 much acquainted with horses. The suppling to 

 both hands capacitates him to work to one hand as 



well as the other; and in horses that have not 

 been so suppled, if chance or fatigue make them 

 change their leg for that which they are not accus- 



