Vronsky was aware of those eyes fastened upon him from all sides, but he saw nothing except the ears and neck of his own mare, the ground racing to meet him, and the back and white legs of Gladiator beating time swiftly before him, and keeping always the same distance ahead.

Gladiator rose, with no sound of knocking against anything.

With a wave of his short tail he disappeared from Vronsky's sight.