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A horse and rider at the canter A miniature horse at a gallop. The canter and gallop are variations on the fastest gait that can be performed by a horse or other equine.The canter is a controlled three-beat gait, [1] while the gallop is a faster, four-beat variation of the same gait. [2]
Copper engraving of the "Great Galop" of Johann Strauss (1839). Galop rhythm. [1]In dance, the galop, named after the fastest running gait of a horse (see Gallop), a shortened version of the original term galoppade, is a lively country dance, introduced in the late 1820s to Parisian society by the Duchesse de Berry and popular in Vienna, Berlin and London.
A controlled gallop used to show a horse's ground-covering stride in horse show competition is called a "gallop in hand" or a hand gallop. [12] In complete contrast to the suspended phase of a gallop, when a horse jumps over a fence, the legs are stretched out while in the air, and the front legs hit the ground before the hind legs.
Reining is a western riding competition for horses where the riders guide the horses through a precise pattern of circles, spins, and stops. All work is done at the lope (a version of the horse gait more commonly known worldwide as the canter), or the gallop (the fastest of the horse gaits).
Victory Gallop's performances won him the 1999 Eclipse Award for Outstanding Older Male Horse. In a poll published by the New York Times' About, Inc., he was the top vote getter for Most Impressive Performance of the Year for his win in the Stephen Foster Handicap. Victory Gallop was inducted in the Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame in 2010. [4]
Geoff Gallop (born 1951), Australian academic and former politician; George Gallop (1590–1650), English politician and Member of Parliament; Harold Gallop (1910-2006), Canadian middle-distance runner; Henry Gallop (1857-1940), English cricketer; Jane Gallop (born 1952), American professor; Matt Gallop (born 1987), New Zealand professional bowler
[4] Another name for the slow gait is the stepping pace. [5] The USEF is clear that the slow gait is not merely a slow version of the rack, [4] but the primary difference between the two is the slight hesitation between the second and third beats of the slow gait. [5] A five-gaited horse might also perform the fox trot rather than the stepping ...
During the time of Genghis Khan, Mongol horse archers were capable of feats such as sliding down the side of their horses to shield their bodies from enemy arrows, while simultaneously holding their bows under the horses' chins and returning fire, all at full gallop. The education of a modern Mongolian horseman begins in childhood.