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PACES OF THE HORSE. 



may see in Muybridge's admirable book, Animal Locomotion, 

 vol ix. Also, at this pace, the angle which the face, when 

 viewed in profile, makes with the horizontal plane, more 

 often exceeds than is less than 45°. I may say that, unless 

 in very exceptional cases, it is never less than 40° We have 

 on rare occasions, in jumping, extreme extension of the neck. 



Passage, — Having no more suitable term to express the 

 artifical pace under consideration, I am forced to employ the 

 French word passage, that signifies a short and very high 



Fig. 149.— The Passage. 



trot, in which each fore limb, in its turn, when it is raised to 

 its highest point, is poised in the air for an instant, and is 

 bent at the knee and fetlock. It may be called the prelude 

 to the piaffer (p. 79), and is an air de manege (high school 

 pace). The '* passage " of the English military riding school 

 is a movement (i deux pistes) by which ground can be taken 

 to the right or left without the rider being obliged to turn 

 his horse. In Fig. 149, which shows th^ passage, the riders 

 bridle hand is held high, so as to bring the animal's neck in 



