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Trotting horse

A trotting horse is a standardbred horse whose gait is diagonal. That is, its forelegs move in unison with the hindlegs on the opposite side – left foreleg with right hindleg and left hindleg with right foreleg. The other gait used by standardbred horses is the pace.

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