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canter
The canter is a controlled, three-beat gait performed by a horse. It is a natural gait possessed by all horses, faster than most horses' trot but slower than the gallop, and is used by all riders. The speed of the canter varies between 16 and 27 km/h (10 and 17 mph), depending on the length of the stride of the horse. A variation of the canter, seen in western riding, is called a lope, and generally is quite slow, no more than 13–19 km/h (8–12 mph).
==Etymology==
Since the earliest dictionaries there has been a commonly agreed suggestion that the origin of the word comes from the English city of Canterbury, a place of pilgrimage in the Middle Ages, as referred to in ''The Canterbury Tales'', where the comfortable speed for a pilgrim travelling some distance on horseback was above that of a trot but below that of a gallop. However the lack of the compelling evidence made the 18th-century equestrian Richard Berenger remark in ''The History and Art of Horsemanship''〔(p. 71 )〕 that "the definition must certainly puzzle all who are ''horsemen'' and all who are ''not''" (italics ), and suggest his own derivation, noted in contemporary dictionaries,〔(p. 260 )〕 from the Latin word ''cantherius'', a gelding, known of the calmness of the temper.
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