The exterior of the horse . three more orless rapid phases : one of preparation, one of execution, and one ofdescent. M. Ottomar Anschiitz has recorded all the successive attitudes bymeans of instantaneous photographs. We will reproduce, from hisseries of twenty portraits, the five principal positions which it appearsuseful to us to study * (Figs. 262 to 266). The animal during the first period (preparation) approximates hisfour members under the trunk, suddenly elevates the head and theneck, and forcibly carries them backward. The anterior columns, at thesame time, become rigid and straighten
The exterior of the horse . three more orless rapid phases : one of preparation, one of execution, and one ofdescent. M. Ottomar Anschiitz has recorded all the successive attitudes bymeans of instantaneous photographs. We will reproduce, from hisseries of twenty portraits, the five principal positions which it appearsuseful to us to study * (Figs. 262 to 266). The animal during the first period (preparation) approximates hisfour members under the trunk, suddenly elevates the head and theneck, and forcibly carries them backward. The anterior columns, at thesame time, become rigid and straightened, and raise the anterior quar-ters (Fig. 262), as if the horse intended to rear. During the second period (execution) the posterior members extend,in the manner of a bow in the act of unbending, and propel the bodyupward and forward (Fig. 263). The next instant the body is sent up 1 For more details, see G. Barrier, Société centrale de médecine vétérinaire (séance du 14 Février, 1889). THE GAITS IN PARTICULAR. 571. M m u u m m m m m- FiG. 262.—The leap. (Preparation.)
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