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Horse Trot

Last Updated: September 23, 2009

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Ashley Griffin, University of Kentucky

The trot is a two beat diagonal gait where the horse’s legs work in paired diagonals. The pattern of this two beat diagonal gait may be as follows: right hind and left front then left hind and right front or left hind and right front then right hind and left front.


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