Horse Aires

Aires are different ways of travelling with the horse. The horse can step, trot and canter.

Step/Trot/Gallop
Step is the slow walk.  The horse is moving in diagonal bipedal (i.e., moving at the same time as the left hand and right foot, and vice versa).  There’s always a foot on the ground, and it is symmetrical, because the movement of the left diagonal biped is repeated identical in the contrary bipedal.  It is estimated that the average speed is 6 to 7 km/h at half height of the horse.

Trot:  Faster than a step and jumped symmetrical (because at any given time, the horse is suspended with no foot on the ground). The trot can be working (at a good pace), sitting (speed, slow) or long (when the horse reaches the widest trance, so it is not the fastest).

There are two ways to mount trot:

Sitting trot in which, while the horse will trot, the rider keeps the innkeepers on the seat, and it must follow the horse’s movement with the hips.

Trotting up: while the horse trots, the rider is going to lift it, at a time when the animal has given up. To make a good trot up (called “running to the hand”) you must always bear in mind that when man rises, it coincides with the time the horse is standing.   It is estimated that the average speed of the trot is almost 15km/h at half height of a horse.

Gallop (vel. reach 65 km/h) is the fastest, but the horse runs out before it has no respiratory independence.  In supporting his hands on the floor, is required to expel the air and therefore can not accelerate their respiration rate at will. It is the only asymmetrical movement.

The horse can gallop “on the right hand or left hand.”  In the gallop to the right, for example, the biped is moving right over left.  It is estimated that the average speed of the gallop is about 19 or 20 km/h at half height of a horse but horses training for a race can reach higher speeds.   The cycle of steps is called the Tranco, from supporting a foot to supporting it again. Each sequence we mark a trance of each horse in the air.   The next image shows the sequence of air.