Why horses gallop in pair on the training track?
“Gallop in pairs” is a commonly used term in local racing newspapers, which means that a set of two or sometimes three horses gallop together in morning workouts. If two or more horses trot in company, it is so-called “trot in pairs”. Basically, there are two patterns of gallop in pair, one of which is that two horses start in sequence, with the one lagging behind speeding up en route, mostly in the last quarter, to keep abreast of the leader. The second one is that two horses start at the same time, or run together bridle to bridle, or one horse trails another, until the duo makes a run in the last quarter. As one of the many ways to train horses, gallop in pair mainly performs the following functions. It can lift a horse’s fighting spirits. Horses are both herd animals and inborn racing specialists. When they run and wheel about in a mob, they will become particularly enthusiastic as the faster animal can display a sense of superiority over its peers. In the wild, the superior horse
