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On Mar 14, 2009, at 9:12 AM, Sisu West Ranch wrote:
> "...a long journey over a relatively short span of time in the  
> world of equine gait analysis. The first studies utilized high- 
> speed cameras and a treadmill and took place at the Swedish  
> University of Agricultural Sciences some 35 years ago..."
>
>
> Not quite true.  The first person (whose name escapes me, but it  
> was sometime around 1870*) to figure out a way to take a series of  
> photos and then show them one after another thus inventing "motion  
> pictures", took photos of a galloping horse, thus showing the  
> relative positions of the legs at the gallop.  If you look at old  
> drawings of galloping horses, you often find them in the "flying  
> gallop" position with front legs straight out in front, and back  
> legs straight out in back.  These first "gait analysis" movies  
> showed that this position does not happen.
>
> Ed
>
> *I know that a little research using Wikipedia or Google would  
> produce the reference, but I am leaving that as an exercise for the  
> reader.**
>
> **I always suspected that my professors were just lazy when they  
> did this to me.

1887: http://www.worldsfamousphotos.com/sequence-of-a-race-horse- 
galloping-1887.html

it was more to prove the photography tech than the horse gait though...

we've come a long way:
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDuJS1VeReI

jt


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