Horses

Horses

Any of various equine mammals, or even certain extinct forms related ancestrally to the modern horse.

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cue

Animals; Horses

A single signal, often made up of several aids, from the rider or handler that tells a horse what to do. Often used in performing tricks.

The gait between walk and gallop; it consists of three beats followed by a moment of suspension, and has “leads” (in which legs on one side of the horse, front and back, reach farther forward than ...

pace-walk

Animals; Horses

The pace-walk is a lateral four-beat gait in which the horse will pick up both the front and rear foot simultaneously, then moves the rear foot faster than the front foot and sets the rear foot down ...

beat

Animals; Horses

A single step in a gait, involving one leg or two. For example, the walk is a 4-beat gait, with each beat stepped off by a single leg, one at a time, 1-2-3-4. The trot is a 2-beat gait, stepped off ...

rack

Animals; Horses

In the show ring the rack is a fast, flashy, four beat gait in which each foot strikes the ground at equal intervals and which is fee from any lateral movement or pacing.