title: Equine locomotion: 3. The reproducibility of gait in standardbred trotters.
abstract: The reproducibility of certain gait characteristics was investigated in Standardbred trotters at a speed of 12.0 m/sec. Twenty-two horses were recorded twice on the same day and 4 of them on a third occasion 3 years later. The short-term reproducibility was shown to be very good. In the long-term study it was found that the stride length and duration of swing and stride had increased. This was interpreted as an effect of training.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D005684:Gait; D006736:Horses / Q000502:physiology*; D009040:Motion Pictures