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At 11:36 PM 2/3/03, Dot Wiggins wrote:
> Not quite a square, 4 beat, a little broken rythym to it.

Yeah, the "ta-dum ta-dum" walk!  My first endurance horse, Froggie (3/4 
Arab 1/4 Welsh) did that and could do it all day long.  We used to do the 
Death Valley trail rides (4 1/2 days) and we couldn't pass the trail 
boss.  So I would let Froggie walk to the front of the line, turn him 
around and walk him to the very back, then let him walk to the front as 
many times as it took to get us to the end of the day's ride.  We'd cover 
twice as many miles over the same trail as the rest of the group!

My stallion Ben Nasrif would do the walk too, but I had to encourage him 
whereas Froggie always did it on his own.  I'm hoping his son, SE Kokopelli 
Kid will do it as well.  As everyone has mentioned who's experienced the 
power walk, once you've learned to loosen up your waist and let your butt 
waddle with the gait, it's very fast, very smooth.
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