THE RACK. 
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“ Red Gauntlet,” Letter VI.: “ The rider . . . slackened 
his horse’s pace from a slow trot to a walk.” 
And in the “ Ingoldsby Legends ” (the Execution) 
we find—- 
“ Adown Piccadilly and Waterloo-place, 
Went the high-trotting mare at a very quick pace.” 
The designs which seem to indicate the rack on 
Etruscan, Greek, and Roman vases are probably due to 
artistic indifference. It is an unnecessary and unnatural 
gait of the horse, and it is scarcely probable that the 
ancients trained the animal to its use. 
