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APPENDIX. 
This description is very just both with respect to the motion and posture 
of a horse’s legs in galloping, which, though it be true is not easily 
perceived in a gentle gallop, but very visible in a swift one, where the 
motion is violent: I say, his four legs may then plainly appear to be in 
the air at the same time, running being no more than a quick gallop, the 
motion and posture of a horse’s legs being entirely the same. 
“ Running. —The motion of a horse and the action of his legs are the 
same in running as in galloping, the different velocity of the motion only 
excepted; so that running may be properly called a swift gallop, and 
a gallop a slow running. This is the true movement in running. The 
trot is the foundation of a gallop; and the reason is, because the trot being 
crossways, and a gallop both legs on the same side, if you put a horse 
upon a trot beyond the speed of that pace, he is obliged when his off fore¬ 
leg is lifted up, to set down his near hind-leg so quickly, that it makes 
the hind-leg follow the fore-leg on the same side, which is a real gallop 
and for this reason a trot is the foundation of a gallop. 
“A gallop is the foundation of the Terre-h-terre, the motion of the 
horse’s legs being the same. He leads with the fore-leg within the Volte, 
and the hind-leg on the same side follows. You keep him only a little 
more in hand in Terre-a-terre, that he may keep his time more regularly. 
“ I could wish that Pacing was excluded from the Manage, that action 
being only mixed and confused, by which a horse moves both legs on the 
same side, and shifts them each movement; and this is as directly contrary 
to the Manage as is possible, if, from an Amble you would put a horse to 
a gallop; for when he is upon a trot you may push him to a gallop, but 
being upon the amble you must stop him upon the hand before he can 
gallop.” 
A HORSE REARING. 
Photographed at Palo Alto , 1879. 
PRINTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS. LIMITED, LONDON AND BECC 1 .ES. 
