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GALLOP [31 records]

Record 1 2018-08-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Occupation Names (General)
  • Horse Racing and Equestrian Sports
CONT

The hot walker's number one task is to cool out the horse and he or she must be waiting for the horse when it returns from the track. The exercise rider will stop the horse in the shed row or stall and remove the tack... and the hot walker will... then walk the horse to cool it out from the jog, gallop or breeze it had. Hot walkers walk the horse inside in the barn or in an outside oval walking ring and will stop every lap or so to offer the horse water.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Désignations des emplois (Généralités)
  • Courses hippiques et sports équestres
DEF

Employé qui s'occupe du conditionnement des chevaux après la course.

Spanish

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Record 2 2017-04-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Symptoms (Medicine)
DEF

A cadence of three heart sounds which may be due either to a third sound(protodiastolic gallop) or to a fourth sound(presystolic gallop), or to a combination of them(summation gallop), in addition to the two normal sounds(first and second). It is a feature of cardiac failure, but may also be heard in healthy young people.

OBS

gallop rhythm : term recommended by the Medical Signs and Symptoms Committee.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Symptômes (Médecine)
DEF

Rythme à trois temps dû à l'adjonction aux deux bruits normaux du cœur d'un 3e ou 4e bruit causé par la défaillance ventriculaire, et ayant une traduction «tactile» autant qu'audible.

OBS

La notion de galop est une notion clinique de bruit de remplissage pathologique lors d'une défaillance ventriculaire, par opposition à la notion de 3e et 4e bruits, qui peuvent être perçus dans des circonstances variées et n'impliquent pas cette notion. Un galop peut être présystolique (en l'absence de fibrillation auriculaire), protodiastolique, ou de sommation par fusion des deux bruits précédents.

Spanish

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Record 3 2017-04-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • The Heart
CONT

A presystolic gallop is an accentuated fourth heart sound and is also caused by blood filling a dilated and invert ventricle.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Cœur
CONT

Sur un cœur affaibli, la distension du ventricule par la systole auriculaire peut donner naissance à un bruit supplémentaire assourdi, [...] c'est le bruit de galop présystolique.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Corazón
DEF

Galope atribuido a la distensión presistólica del ventrículo causado por la contracción de la aurícula; suele acompañar a la hipertrofia de un ventrículo que provoca disminución de la adaptabilidad y aumento de la resistencia al llenado.

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Record 4 2016-02-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Horse Racing and Equestrian Sports
DEF

An easy, rather collected gallop.

OBS

The horses may be inspected in the paddock before each event and are also paraded in front of the stands and enclosures before the most important races. They then canter down to the start where the starter’s assistants supervise each horse being ridden into his correct starting stall (if in use) according to the draw.

OBS

Horse racing term.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Courses hippiques et sports équestres
DEF

Galop d'allure réduite d'un cheval.

CONT

Galop qu'effectuent les chevaux pour se rendre du pesage à l'emplacement de départ de la course. (Le canter n'a pour but que de détendre les chevaux et de montrer au public la souplesse de leur action et la longueur de leurs foulées.)

OBS

Peut être aussi un galop d'essai ou d'entraînement d'un cheval de course.

OBS

Terme de courses de chevaux.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Carreras de caballos y deportes ecuestres
OBS

Término de carreras de caballos.

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Record 5 2011-06-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Horse Racing and Equestrian Sports
CONT

The natural gaits of the horse are the walk, trot, canter(including the lope), and gallop.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Courses hippiques et sports équestres
CONT

Les allures instinctives sont celles que tout cheval non dressé prendra de lui-même, comme le pas, le trot, le galop et éventuellement le reculer.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Carreras de caballos y deportes ecuestres
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Record 6 2011-06-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Horse Racing and Equestrian Sports
  • Horse Husbandry
DEF

At gallop or canter, action of the horse changing from one leg to the other, from a canter at right to a canter at left or the opposite; if performed in the dressage event, a change of gait at the request of the rider.

Key term(s)
  • change of foot

French

Domaine(s)
  • Courses hippiques et sports équestres
  • Élevage des chevaux
DEF

Au galop, action du cheval qui change spontanément de pied, va du galop à droite au galop à gauche ou l'inverse; en dressage, modification d'allure à la demande du cavalier.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Carreras de caballos y deportes ecuestres
  • Cría de ganado caballar
CONT

EL CAMBIO DE PIE SIMPLE (CON PASOS INTERMEDIOS). Es un cambio de pie en el que el caballo al galope, cae al paso y, después de un máximo de tres o cuatro pasos y a este aire, vuelve a salir al galope y sobre la otra mano.

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Record 7 2011-05-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Horse Racing and Equestrian Sports
  • Horse Husbandry
DEF

For a horse, a way of moving occurring when the hind quarters lose coordination with the front, the horse leading with one leg in front and the diagonal one in back.

OBS

Considered dangerous if it is the ordinary gait of the horse, the disunited canter is a figure in dressage.

Key term(s)
  • cross gallop

French

Domaine(s)
  • Courses hippiques et sports équestres
  • Élevage des chevaux
DEF

Démarche du cheval lorsqu'il se déplace en avançant simultanément une jambe de devant et sa diagonale derrière.

OBS

Considéré comme la conséquence d'une perte de coordination et un mouvement aux suites dangereuses s'il s'agit de l'allure régulière du cheval, ce mouvement devient une figure en dressage.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Carreras de caballos y deportes ecuestres
  • Cría de ganado caballar
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Record 8 2011-05-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Horse Racing and Equestrian Sports
  • Horse Husbandry
DEF

A moderately fast gait of a horse ... in which the legs move in diagonal pairs.

OBS

to trot: Of horses, go at a gait between a walk and a run by lifting the right forefoot and the left hind foot at about the same time and then the other two feet in the same way.

OBS

Besides referring to this specific way of walking, the term "trot" means, generally, the slowest gait of the horse, the "gallop" being the fastest, and the "canter", an intermediate gait, faster than the trot but slower than the gallop.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Courses hippiques et sports équestres
  • Élevage des chevaux
DEF

Allure diagonale à deux temps, dans laquelle les bipèdes diagonaux se lèvent et se posent tour à tour.

OBS

En plus de ce sens spécifique lié à la pose des pieds au sol, le terme «trot» désigne, en langage courant, une allure lente, et le galop, une allure rapide.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Carreras de caballos y deportes ecuestres
  • Cría de ganado caballar
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Record 9 2010-12-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Horse Racing and Equestrian Sports
DEF

During a motion, when a foot or feet, is/are off the ground. At the gallop, when all four feet are off the ground.

CONT

At the gallop, when all four feet are off the ground.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Courses hippiques et sports équestres
DEF

Dans un déplacement, moment durant lequel un membre, [pour un] bipède ou, dans le [cas du cheval] galop, les quatre membres [...], ne touchent pas le sol.

Spanish

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Record 10 2010-08-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Horse Racing and Equestrian Sports
OBS

In turf racing, the fastest equestrian sport, jockeys and their horses gallop full out to beat competitors to the finish line.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Courses hippiques et sports équestres
OBS

Au turf, course la plus rapide pratiquée en équitation, le jockey et son cheval doivent s'entendre parfaitement s'ils veulent franchir la ligne d'arrivée avant leurs concurrents.

Spanish

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Record 11 2008-03-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Horse Racing and Equestrian Sports

French

Domaine(s)
  • Courses hippiques et sports équestres

Spanish

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Record 12 2005-11-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Horse Racing and Equestrian Sports

French

Domaine(s)
  • Courses hippiques et sports équestres

Spanish

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Record 13 2005-10-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Horse Racing and Equestrian Sports
  • Horse Husbandry
DEF

[To] go at galloping speed.

OBS

Horse racing term.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Courses hippiques et sports équestres
  • Élevage des chevaux
OBS

Désigne l'action d'aller au galop.

OBS

Terme de courses de chevaux.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Carreras de caballos y deportes ecuestres
  • Cría de ganado caballar
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Record 14 2005-10-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Horse Racing and Equestrian Sports
DEF

The most rapid movement of a horse ... in which in the course of each stride the animal is entirely off the ground, with legs flexed under the body.

CONT

The gallop is an accelerated canter; the movement is the same as a canter.

OBS

Horse racing term.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Courses hippiques et sports équestres
DEF

La plus rapide des allures naturelles du cheval.

CONT

Dans sa forme courante, le galop est à trois temps.

OBS

Terme de courses de chevaux.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Carreras de caballos y deportes ecuestres
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Record 15 2005-10-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Horse Racing and Equestrian Sports
DEF

The gait of a horse when he runs at top speed.

CONT

The canter is a slow gallop... [of] about eight miles per hour... and is only half as fast as a full gallop.

PHR

At full gallop.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Courses hippiques et sports équestres
DEF

[...] allure rapide, à quatre temps et à battues très rapprochées, que mène le cavalier en suspension.

CONT

Cette allure n'est d'ailleurs réellement pratiquée qu'en course et au polo. [...] Assiette en avant, en «suspension sur les étriers», au galop de course.

PHR

Au grand galop.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Carreras de caballos y deportes ecuestres
PHR

A galope tendido.

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Record 16 2005-02-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Horse Racing and Equestrian Sports
  • Horse Husbandry
DEF

A slow canter but with great impulsion. The shoulders are supple and free, and the quarters very active.

CONT

A collected canter on a well-schooled horse is both a joy to watch and a pleasure to ride. With the horse’s quarters very active and the whole movement light and balanced ... without excessive speed and with graceful action.

Key term(s)
  • collected gallop

French

Domaine(s)
  • Courses hippiques et sports équestres
  • Élevage des chevaux
CONT

Le galop rassemblé, comme le galop de course, est un galop à quatre temps plus ou moins bien marqués [...] Dans le galop rassemblé, on constate l'apparition de deux bipédales (antérieure et postérieure).

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Carreras de caballos y deportes ecuestres
  • Cría de ganado caballar
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Record 17 2005-02-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Horse Racing and Equestrian Sports
DEF

Canter on the outside lead, performed purposely.

CONT

The counter canter refers to the horse’s ability to take the unnatural lead. In a circle to the right the horse would counter canter in his left lead, in a circle to the left he’d be on the right lead. When used properly, the counter canter can be a tool to encourage the horse to travel with an improved capacity for straightness, balance and rated cadence or speed. ... The counter canter or a disunited lead can crop up when a horse is positioned incorrectly for a canter depart or lead change. Make sure you’ve asked for the counter canter when it shows up.

CONT

Katja Weimann has her work cut out with the grey mare Monogram Miss, lots of resistance after the first extended canter, but she recovers quickly with some good counter canters.

OBS

In an intentional counter canter, the horse’s body is upright as the lead leg follows the bridge of the nose, which is tipped ever-so-slightly to the outside. In an accidental wrong lead, the horse’s nose is tipped to the inside of the circle causing the inside shoulder to drop when the lead is picked up. They are very different, even though the footfall is the same.

OBS

The term "counter canter" can refer to both an intentional and an incorrect lead.

Key term(s)
  • canter counterlead
  • counter-gallop
  • counter gallop

French

Domaine(s)
  • Courses hippiques et sports équestres
DEF

Galop sur le pied extérieur, demandé par le cavalier.

CONT

Le galop à faux ou contre-galop confirme le cheval dans son galop, l'assouplit, favorise l'engagement des postérieurs et soumet le cheval.

OBS

Le terme «galop à faux» s'emploie à la fois pour désigner le galop qui se produit par erreur et le galop effectué à la demande du cavalier.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Carreras de caballos y deportes ecuestres
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Record 18 2004-11-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Horse Racing and Equestrian Sports
DEF

To canter deliberately on the outside lead.

CONT

The counter canter refers to the horse’s ability to take the unnatural lead. In a circle to the right the horse would counter canter in his left lead, in a circle to the left he’d be on the right lead. When used properly, the counter canter can be a tool to encourage the horse to travel with an improved capacity for straightness, balance and rated cadence or speed.

CONT

The horse counter canters when he is on the right hand on a curve to the right, and canters on the left foot, bent to the left and touching the ground in front (of the other legs) with his front and hind left legs.

Key term(s)
  • canter at the counter-lead
  • counter-gallop
  • countercanter
  • counter gallop

French

Domaine(s)
  • Courses hippiques et sports équestres
DEF

Galoper sur le pied extérieur à la demande du cavalier.

CONT

Le cheval galope à faux lorsque, étant à main droite sur une courbe à droite, il reste sur son galop gauche, ployé à gauche, posant au sol antérieur et postérieur gauche devant.

OBS

Le terme «galoper à faux» s'emploie à la fois pour désigner le galop qui se produit par erreur et le galop effectué à la demande du cavalier.

Spanish

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Record 19 2004-09-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Horse Racing and Equestrian Sports
  • Horse Husbandry
OBS

Although "gallop" and "canter" are the same beat, a "gallop" may be faster.

Key term(s)
  • gallop on the true lead
  • gallop at the true lead
  • true gallop

French

Domaine(s)
  • Courses hippiques et sports équestres
  • Élevage des chevaux

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Carreras de caballos y deportes ecuestres
  • Cría de ganado caballar
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Record 20 2004-09-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Horse Racing and Equestrian Sports
CONT

It is interesting to hear the answers people give to the question, "How do you make your horse strike off into Canter or Lope?" The answers range from: hit your horse with the whip by the flanks or kick the ribs of the horse as hard as you can with your heels or spurs or trot faster and faster until the horse by itself strikes off into canter.

CONT

An equine training example of this could be if the rider clicks his tongue just as he feels a young horse about to strike off in canter, and repeats this every time the horse goes into canter, the horse will soon begin to associate the click with the canter transition and produce the canter transition on the click signal.

CONT

The horse should strike off into the canter, on the lead you have indicated.

CONT

Get a nice trot going and strike off at the canter on the leg next to the fence.

OBS

Although a canter and a gallop are the same gait, the canter tends to be the gentler of the two.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Courses hippiques et sports équestres

Spanish

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Record 21 2004-09-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Horse Racing and Equestrian Sports
  • Horse Husbandry
DEF

To change the gait; as, to break into a run or gallop.

CONT

He will break into a canter and gallop immediately, perhaps leaping a bit in the air as he breaks away.

CONT

I immediately ordered the Eighth Pennsylvania Cavalry to proceed at a gallop, attack the rebels, and check them until we could get the artillery in position.

CONT

The horse took a leisurely 15-minute jog on his home turf at Philadelphia Park on Wednesday morning, but didn’t break into a gallop.

OBS

Competitive horseback riding term.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Courses hippiques et sports équestres
  • Élevage des chevaux
DEF

Changer d'allure, de mouvement.

CONT

Rompre au pas à partir de l'arrêt.

OBS

Terme d'équitation.

PHR

Partir au galop.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Carreras de caballos y deportes ecuestres
  • Cría de ganado caballar
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Record 22 2002-03-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Gymnastics and Trampoline

French

Domaine(s)
  • Gymnastique et trampoline

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Gimnasia y acrobacias sobre cama elástica
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Record 23 1995-07-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Organizations, Administrative Units and Committees
OBS

Mouth of Keswick.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes, unités administratives et comités
OBS

Source : Traduction des débats, Assemblée législative du Nouveau-Brunswick.

Spanish

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Record 24 1986-05-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Horse Racing and Equestrian Sports

French

Domaine(s)
  • Courses hippiques et sports équestres
DEF

Dénomme le galop d'essai du cheval pendant l'entraînement.

Spanish

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Record 25 1983-06-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Horse Racing and Equestrian Sports
OBS

The sequences of the footfalls of canter and gallop(...) refer to "united gaits".

French

Domaine(s)
  • Courses hippiques et sports équestres
OBS

Allure régulière.

Spanish

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Record 26 1983-04-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Archaeology
OBS

a rapid gait in which all four are off the ground at each stride.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Archéologie

Spanish

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Record 27 1981-01-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Cost of Living
  • Economic Fluctuations
OBS

They claim that countenancing a little inflation will result in the creep of inflation inevitably becoming a trot, the trot inevitably becoming a gallop, and the gallop inevitably becoming a runaway.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Coût de la vie
  • Fluctuations économiques

Spanish

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Record 28 1976-06-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Horse Racing and Equestrian Sports

French

Domaine(s)
  • Courses hippiques et sports équestres

Spanish

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Record 29 1976-06-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Horse Racing and Equestrian Sports

French

Domaine(s)
  • Courses hippiques et sports équestres

Spanish

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Record 30 1976-06-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Horse Racing and Equestrian Sports

French

Domaine(s)
  • Courses hippiques et sports équestres

Spanish

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Record 31 1976-06-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Horse Racing and Equestrian Sports

French

Domaine(s)
  • Courses hippiques et sports équestres

Spanish

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