. The horse in the stable and the field: his management in health and disease ... with an essay on the American trotting horse, and suggestions on the breeding and training of trotters. Horses. THE EXTENDED GALLOP. 91 ean easily be distinguished from it. This pace is merely a slow and measured gallop, in which for a very short period all the legs leave the ground, but in which the propulsion is steadily given, and not with those snatches or jerks which are necessary to de- velop the high speed of the extended gallop. The body also is not nearer the ground than in the act of standing, and this
. The horse in the stable and the field: his management in health and disease ... with an essay on the American trotting horse, and suggestions on the breeding and training of trotters. Horses. THE EXTENDED GALLOP. 91 ean easily be distinguished from it. This pace is merely a slow and measured gallop, in which for a very short period all the legs leave the ground, but in which the propulsion is steadily given, and not with those snatches or jerks which are necessary to de- velop the high speed of the extended gallop. The body also is not nearer the ground than in the act of standing, and this may be considered as one of the best distinctions between the hand gallop and the extended stride of the faster pace. The French writers distinguish between the two by asserting that in the hand gallop there are- three beats, while in the flying gallop two only are per- formed ; but in practice there is no such variation. THE EXTENDED GALLOP. According to most observers, this pace is a succession of leaps, smoothly and rhythmically performed, but Mr. Percivall has shown that there is a considerable difference between the two ac- tions. He says in his lectures,—" In galloping a horse, in huut-. EECEIVED INTERPRETATION OF THE GALLOP. ing, for example, the rider needs no person to tell him of the mo- ment when his horse is taking a leap, however trifling it may be: his own sensations inform him of every grip or furrow his horse leaps in his course, and should he have occasion to make a succes- sion of such jumps, the rider's sensations in his saddle are of a very different-—very uneasy—kind, compared to such as he expe- riences during the act of galloping. This arises from two causes: from the spring or movement of the body necessary to produce the leap being more forcible or sudden than that required for the gallop, and from the latter being created and continued rather by the sue-. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been
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