The
trot is a two-beat diagonal
gait of the
horse where the diagonal pairs of legs move forward at the same time with a moment of suspension between each beat. It has a wide variation in possible speeds, but averages about . A very slow trot is sometimes referred to as a
jog. An extremely fast trot has no special name, but in
harness racing, the trot of a
Standardbred is faster than the gallop of the average non-
racehorse, and has been clocked at over .