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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In the manège, a leap of a horse in which all four legs are bent without jerking out the hind ones. Also spelled balotade.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Man.) A leap of a horse, as between two pillars, or upon a straight line, so that when his four feet are in the air, he shows only the shoes of his hind feet, without jerking out.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun dressage A leap of a horse, as between two pillars, or on a straight line, so that when his four feet are in the air, he shows only the shoes of his hind feet, without jerking out.

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