mistrail
verbEtymology From mis- + trail.
1
Ambitransitive To gallop in such a way that the rear hoof lands in line with the place where the front hoof on the opposite side landed.
- again, the imprint of the posterior foot in question may be made in front or behind that the diagonal anterior foot, and then the horse mistrails himself (se dépiste) .1892, Armand Goubaux, Gustave Barrier, Simon J. J. Harger, The Exterior of the Horse, page 475:
- dépister, v.r., (man.) to mistrail (said of the gallop when the imprint of the rear foot is in front of or behind that of the diagonal anterior).1899, Cornélis De Witt Willcox, A French-English Military Technical Dictionary, page 127: