Re: Re: Amblin', not Foxtrottin'

["Duncan Fletcher" <dfletche@gte.net>]

The trot is indeed (approximately) a 2 beat diagonal gait, but there is
always some degree of disassociation assuming your timing equipment is
accurate enough. This this may be hairsplitting, but in that continuum of
timing from pace to trot, some arbritrary lines are drawn describing when
the gait is no longer a trot but becomes a fox trot and so on through rack,
stepping pace and pace.

Duncan Fletcher
dfletche@gte.net


----- Original Message -----
From: <DVeritas@aol.com>

> Duncan,
>     Okay.
>      Amblin'...
>      I got the term from one of the first (and the last living until three
> weeks ago) Big R Judges in the Arabian world who goes back to some of the
> first and finest importations of Crabbet Arabian horses and who judged the
> National Championship for the Five Gaited Class (back when "ambling" was a
> recognized gait in the Arabian world.)
>      And, the trot is a two beat diagonal gait, period.
>      But, I understand pet peeves, too.
>
>      Frank.
>
>