Some classes will also occasionally ask for a counter canter or a hand gallop.

In some classes, backing up, an extended trot, and a hand gallop may also be required.

Tobin's hands galloped over the control panel.

And therewith he went off at a hand gallop, and Ralph followed him without more ado.

And mounting his horse Musqueton rode off down the avenue on the grass at a hand gallop.

Tunstall's hands galloped off through the brush to a hilltop overlooking the trail.

Havel tightened his thighs and shifted his balance, bringing Gustav up to a hand gallop.

In some breed competitions, a judge may ask for an extended canter and/or a hand gallop, and, less often, an extension of the jog.

In addition, many judges will ask for extended gaits, particularly an extended jog and, in some breeds, the hand gallop.

In equestrian competition, a show ring "hand gallop," or "gallop in hand" is a true lengthening of stride.

The Colonel and the two cowboys set off at a hand gallop in a vain attempt to round them up and drive them back to the cameras.

I cried to Anscombe, and off we went at a hand gallop along the native track, the cart swaying and bumping upon the rough veld.

Anscombe kicked the horse with his sound heel and I thumped it with my fist, thereby persuading it to a hand gallop.

But at Paris, so agitated and divided, fancy how it went, when the continually vibrating Orderlies vibrated thither at hand gallop, with such questionable news!

Then they circled back around and lowered themselves into a flying hand gallop, almost squatting down as they stretched out to speed, clods flying from their hooves.

A controlled gallop used to show a horse's ground-covering stride in horse show competition is called a "gallop in hand" or a hand gallop.

"Push on," said Masouda; "there is no time to spare," and they went forward, but only at a hand gallop, for the ground was still rough and the light uncertain.

Show hack classes do not require jumping, but instead ask the horse to perform collected, regular, and extended versions of the walk, trot and canter, plus the hand gallop, usually attired in Dressage style equipment.

In North American classes, the show hack is to show at extended, regular and collected versions of the walk, trot and canter, as well as performing a hand gallop, halt and the rein back.

Hunter hack is a type of English pleasure class where exhibitors in Hunt seat tack and attire perform on the flat at a walk, trot, canter and hand gallop, and then jump two low fences.

In the average English pleasure class, the horses perform as a group, exhibiting the natural gaits of the walk, trot, and canter, and may also be asked to extend the trot or to perform a hand gallop.

The Indian style has the merit of holding the horse well in hand, making him bound off at a touch of the heel, stopping him dead at a hand gallop, and wheeling him round on a pivot.

A hundred yards away Astrid Larsson had twitched her horse into a hand gallop with an imperceptible tensing of her thighs on the saddle and shift of balance; the reins lay knotted on the horn.

He knows, Watch,' and Theophilus did watch, with rising delight, as the young warrior broke away from his guard and his retinue and pushed his horse to a hand gallop, heading directly for the procurator.

Starting at a hand gallop, for the first three hundred yards he rode straight at the tip of the tongue-shaped mass of cavalry which, numbering, so far as I could judge, about eight thousand sabres, was advancing to charge us.