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but it ensures good speed, and is essential to its combination 

 with working powers. It passes from the enormous stride of 

 6 Cerito ' and ' Mocking Bird, ' through the ' King Cob ' and 

 ' Foremost ' styles, down to that type of elegance and effect seen 

 in most of the ' Bedlamites,' including more particularly ( Riot ' 

 and ( Romping Girl.' 



f Cerito ' may be taken as a good specimen of this gallop for the 

 flat, but her stride was too overreaching for hilly ground, as was 

 evinced in her course in Wiltshire, and in those at Broughton and 

 Market Weighton ; for though she won seven courses out of ten 

 at the two latter places, still her performances there are not to be 

 compared with those at Altcar, where the soft peaty soil exactly 

 suited her. ' Miss Hannah,' on the contrary, is an example of this 

 style in the opposite degree to that of ' Cerito,' being sharper and 

 less overreaching, and consequently more adapted to hilly and 

 hard ground. Were she as large as e Cerito,' with her own style, 

 she would be perfection itself; as it is, I should take my stand 

 upon her for all countries, rather than upon her still more 

 fortunate rival in public estimation. The ' King Cobs ' partake 

 of the ( Miss Hannah ' style, but generally with rather less 

 smartness, whilst the ' Foremosts ' are more nearly approaching 

 to that of f Cerito.' Lastly, the c Bedlamites ' exhibit this kind of 

 action in the most perfect manner, bringing their stifles well 

 forward, and with less apparent effort than ' Cerito,' doing more 

 execution in point of pace, with far more command of themselves. 



Srdly. There is the defective gallop, which may occur either 

 from a want of projecting the shoulder forward, or of getting 



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