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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.
The gallop is the fastest gait of the horse, averaging about 40 to 48 kilometres per hour (25 to 30 mph), and in the wild is used when the animal needs to flee from predators or simply cover short distances quickly. Horses seldom will gallop more than 1.5 or 3 kilometres (0.93 or 1.86 mi) before they need to rest, though horses can sustain a ...
A controlled gallop, with a speed between that of a canter and a full gallop. Derives from the fact that the gallop is under control of the rider's hand. [1]: 100 Often used to show a horse's ground-covering stride in horse show competition. hard keeper (US), poor doer (UK)
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.
the gallop, which averages 40 to 48 kilometres per hour (25 to 30 mph), [86] but the world record for a horse galloping over a short, sprint distance is 70.76 kilometres per hour (43.97 mph). [ 87 ] Besides these basic gaits, some horses perform a two-beat pace , instead of the trot. [ 88 ]
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
The Horse in Motion is a series of cabinet cards by Eadweard Muybridge, including six cards that each show a sequential series of six to twelve "automatic electro-photographs" depicting the movement of a horse. Muybridge shot the photographs in June 1878.
Although most horse experts consider the canter and gallop to be separate gaits, on the basis of a small variation in the footfall pattern, [13] Icelandic breed registries consider the canter and gallop one gait, hence the term "five-gaited". [14] The first additional gait is a four-beat lateral ambling gait known as the tölt.