The exterior of the horse . ovement is made by a hind-limb. If thisbe the posterior right, it will be followed by the anterior left, then theposterior left, and, finally, the anterior right. If the horse were to back at a trot, the members would be displacedsimultaneously, as in this gait, l)y diagonal bipeds in two successivetimes. With a j)articular dressing, backing may be effected with the sameregularity and the same speed as the trot forward. Count Lancosmede Brève publicly demonstrated this, and one of us was a witness ofthe performance in the riding-school in Paris of which he was direc
The exterior of the horse . ovement is made by a hind-limb. If thisbe the posterior right, it will be followed by the anterior left, then theposterior left, and, finally, the anterior right. If the horse were to back at a trot, the members would be displacedsimultaneously, as in this gait, l)y diagonal bipeds in two successivetimes. With a j)articular dressing, backing may be effected with the sameregularity and the same speed as the trot forward. Count Lancosmede Brève publicly demonstrated this, and one of us was a witness ofthe performance in the riding-school in Paris of which he was director. It is not indispensable, nnder these conditions, that the head andthe neck be raised and drawn backward. These regions may remainin their ordinary situation and the horse back of his own accord. THE GAITS IN PARTICULAR. 543 As Lecoq has remarked, the posterior member is carried backwardbefore the posterior quarters can be surcharged by the displacement ofthe centre of gravity. The impulsion is then communicated to the. Fig. 234.—Backing trunk bv the anterior members as well as by the posterior, whose ob-liquity downward and forward favors this action. 2d. The phenomena are different ivlien the horse is attached to avehicle, particularly if he moves a heavy load over soft or unequalground. Not only is he, in this case, obliged to surmount the difficul-ties arising from the inability to place his members in a position inverseto the normal, but he has also to overcome the resistance formed, onthe one part, by the weight of the load, and, on the other, by the natureof the soil. He then backs principally through the breeching of theharness, and onlv displaces the members slowlv and with difficulty(Fig. 235). It results therefrom, says Lecoq, that the hind-foot supports, be-sides the weight of the posterior quarters, already augmeuted, all theresistance opposed by the biuden, and the slipping forward, renderedso frequent by this double cause, deprives the horse of a large par
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