Temporal analysis of walk movements in the Grand Prix dressage test at the 1996 Olympic Games

Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Volumn 62, Issue 2-3, 1999, Pages 89-97

  Hodson, Emma F ^b   Clayton, Hilary M ^a   Lanovaz, Joel L ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARTPURY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dressage; Gait; Horse; Kinematics; Locomotion

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033557211     PISSN: 01681591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-1591(98)00223-8     Document Type: Article

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