University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
A Kinematic Analysis of the Gallop of the Horse (Biomechanics, Gait, Equine, Locomotion, Canter)
Abstract
dc:descriptionA cinematographic approach was used in a kinematic analysis of the equine transverse gallop gait. The stride characteristics of 4 American Quarter Horse fillies were used as a model. Horses were approximately 30 months of age and had been raised in similar environments. During a 12-week preparatory period horses were housed and fed together and were trained in a similar manner. Horses were filmed by 2 cameras simultaneously (243 frames/second) while galloping under the standardized conditions of a specially constructed 1.5-meter-wide track. Horses were all ridden the same saddle and bridle by one person. Kinematic variables determined for 62 strides included stride length, stride frequency, contact and non-contact periods of single limbs and combinations of limbs as well as absolute and relative angular orientations of body segments.
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- Ph.D.
- Level thesis:degree_level
- Dissertation
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- Animal Sciences
- Grantor
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Year dc:date
- 2014
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Deuel, Nancy Roberta
Subjects
dc:subject × 1Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Identifier
- (UMI)AAI8521754
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/70026