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May be what is called a "foxtrot." I've heard people describe a foxtrot this
way. A stepping pace, amble, etc. are an un even four beat gait that is really
a broken pace and tends to the side of being lateral.  If you number the
feet lf = 1, lr=2, rf=3 and rr=4 it goes something like the two feet on one
side hit the ground like 1-2 and a pause and the two on the right side hit
3-4 so it looks and sounds like 1-2 ---- 3-4. The foxtrot is a four beat
gait but it is more a broken trot which goes something like 4-1 --- 2-3.

Clear as mud?

Truman

Maryanne Stroud Gabbani wrote:
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> Quite a lot of the cart horses in Egypt are gaited Arab mixes and it's very
> common for riders to "train them out of that weird gait" with the explanation
> that it's not good for them.  OTOH, no one has any TWH or anything of the
> sort here. I have a very good friend who is one of the riders who gets crazy
> about the funky gait and I haven't the slightest idea what it is, but it
> seems to be natural. Certainly isn't trained because no one in Egypt would
> have the faintest idea how to train it. In Dory it looks a bit like a trot
> in front and a canter in back and her little 14+ hand body can keep up with
> a 17 h warmblood in extended trot.  I've always wondered what it was because
> it was really comfortable and WAY too fast to post. 
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> > Like Tina I pick the speed ( at least in theory I pick the speed
> > ) and the horse figures out what to do with his feet. Jon Warren told me
> > one time that a gaited horse that would trot did much better in distance
> > riding than those that didn't. He should know. 
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