NOTATION OF THE PACES OF THE HORSE. 



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Fig. 225. — Ordinary Ca^nter or "Hand Gallop" (Figs. 114 to 122). 



Fig. 226,— Fast Gallop (Figs. 133 to 148). 



Fig. 227.— The Leap (Figs. 181 to 194). 



order to represent the run, we would place these footprints as they are shown 

 in Fig. 213 ; not as in Fig. 212. We may indicate the "v^alk by Fig. 214, in 

 which J have assumed that both feet are on the ground for one-sixth of the 

 period of support of each foot. 



We must remember that these scales or notations give us only the order 

 of succession of the feet, and their respective and proportionate periods of 

 support and suspension; but they do not furnish us with a clue to the 

 speed of any particular pace, except that, when there is a period of suspen- 

 sion, the longer it is, the greater, as a rule, will be the speed. 



To construct the respective notation of the various paces of the horse, we 

 may employ the rectangles of Fig. 212 for the fore legs, and may use similar 

 ones, placed underneath them, for the hind legs. Thus, Fig. 216 will give us 

 the scale of the trot as shown by Figs. 55 to 58. 



My readers will notice that the dotted lines on Fig. 217 mark the 

 respective moments at which the horse assumed the positions depicted in 

 Figs. 59 to 62,, In the remaining notations in this chapter I have similarly 

 marked the connections between these scales and the corresponding figures 

 in Chapters XIL and XIIL 



