Re: anatomy of horses

In Reply to: Re: anatomy of horses posted by Jeff G on 08/22/00 at 9:21 AM:

: The answer was, yes, all 4 hooves leave the ground for an instant. Of course, maybe Muybridge & the horse were in cahoots to win the bet. ;-)

: : : The name of the photographer who did those motion studies was Eadweard Muybridge (or Edweard Muybridge--it's a weird spelling). The story goes that he was commissioned by Leland Stanford (of university fame) to make the pictures because Stanford had made a bet on whether horses' hooves were ever all off the ground during a gallop. I'm not sure what the answer was.

 
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