. The horse in the stable and the field : his management in health and disease. gallop THE EXTENDED GALLOP. 91 can easily be distinguished from it. This pace is merely a slowand measured gallop, in which for a very short period all the legsleave 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 isnot nearer the ground than in the act of standing, and this may beconsidered as one of the best distinctions between the hand gallopand the extended stride of the faster pa
. The horse in the stable and the field : his management in health and disease. gallop THE EXTENDED GALLOP. 91 can easily be distinguished from it. This pace is merely a slowand measured gallop, in which for a very short period all the legsleave 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 isnot nearer the ground than in the act of standing, and this may beconsidered as one of the best distinctions between the hand gallopand the extended stride of the faster pace. The French writersdistinguish between the two by asserting that in the hand gallopthere are three beats, while in the flying gallop two only are per-formed ; but in practice there is no such variation. THE EXTENDED to most observers, this pace is a succession ofleaps, smoothly and rhythmically performed, but Mr. Percivall hasshown that there is a considerable difference between the two ac-tions. He says in his lectures,— In galloping a horse, in hunt-. RECKIVED 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 horseleaps in his course, and should he have occasion to make a succes-sion of such jumps, the riders sensations in his saddle are of avery different^^—very uneasy—Jiind, 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 theleap being more forcible or sudden than that required for the gallop,and from the latter being created and continued rather by the sue- 92 THE HORSE. cessive action of the two hind feet at one moment, and of that ofthe two fore feet at the next moment, than from the synchronousefforts of either biped, as happens in the leap. The two greatpropellers of the an
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