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Examples of canter
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My horse, acting on instinct, began to canter, and this time I forgot to resist.
From the timesunion.com
Horse breeding is still a major industry, and mares canter across the pastures.
From the businessweek.com
The German, as he has done all year, struck out on his own and won at a canter.
From the telegraph.co.uk
Canter began her career as a special education teacher at Alta Loma Elementary.
From the dailynews.com
The fastest we go is a trot and the occasional canter when a stray animal wanders.
From the theaustralian.com.au
During a night ride on a wide trail, Windy speeded up from a trot to a canter.
From the ocregister.com
The horse's length bends in the direction of movement, a walk, trot or canter.
From the kentucky.com
It is but a short canter from hating pony people to despising the horse crowd.
From the sacbee.com
Or maybe it was his goading that has poked the plodder to break into a canter.
From the guardian.co.uk
- A smooth three-beat gait; between a trot and a gallop
- Ride at a canter; "The men cantered away"
- The canter is a controlled, three-beat gait performed by a horse. It is a natural gait possessed by all horses, faster than most horses' trot but slower than the gallop, and is used by all riders. ...
- One of the four natural gaits of a horse. Slower than a gallop, this is a three beat gait.
- The canter consists of a series of bounds. In the correct canter three hoof beats should be heard. It is known as the right or left canter according to which foreleg is leading.
- Three beated gait of the horse in which one hind leg strides first (the leading leg), followed by the opposite diagonal pair and finally the opposite foreleg. Called the lope in Western riding.
- A canter is faster than a trot, but slower than a gallop. It is easily identified by its distinctive three footfalls per stride, which can be heard clearly when a horse is cantering on a harder surface. ...
- A gait with three beats to each stride, two legs moving separately and two as a diagonal pair. Slower than the gallop and not as tiring.
- A slow gallop. Daily exercise run for race horses.
