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It is in a book, I looked thru recently on horse gaits or something and they 
showed you the placement of the horse feet and in what order they hit the 
ground on a whold buch of different types of gaits. I know the gaited horses 
around here are easy to tell , if your are riding one, you "shimmie" side to 
side rather than bounce up like a trot.Their legs also seem to look base 
narrow, very close together. I know some pasos, some racking horses, some 
tw, some saddle breds, etc. Saddlebreds almost seem to cross their front 
feet in front of each other , I keep thinking they are going to trip.Racking 
and pasos, have a lot of high action in their walks(semi walks, whatever, 
they all have different names)Racking ,TW , Foxtrotters all have a lot of 
"headbobbing" too.Some actually trot with one set of legs and walk with the 
other.
(I cannnot be held legally responsible for my knowledge I am not a "gaited" 
person, just observing). :} Laurie and Rascal




> From: Maryanne Stroud Gabbani <msgabbani@xxxxxxx>
> To: "Barbara McCrary" <bigcreekranch@xxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: "Zephyr Arabians" <z_arabs@xxxxxxxxx>, "RIDECAMP" 
> <ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: [RC]   odd gaited horse
> Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2003 19:34:15 +0200
>
> How can I tell what gait is what without seeing it and having someone tell 
> me? Is it possible?
>
> Maryanne
>
> On Tuesday, Feb 4, 2003, at 17:52 Africa/Cairo, Barbara McCrary wrote:
>
> > For what it might be worth to this discussion, I've ridden two horses in 
> > my
> > life that were gaited.  My childhood mare, a Morgan-draft cross, did a
> > single-foot, and my husband's beloved old horse Grey (some of you will
> > remember him..he was a top ten endurance horse and a Hall of Fame ride & 
> > tie
> > horse) would rack.  Grey was a Morgan-Percheron cross.
> >
> > Barbara McCrary
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Zephyr Arabians" <z_arabs@xxxxxxxxx>
> > To: "Linda" <Elite@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; <ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Monday, February 03, 2003 1:04 PM
> > Subject: Re: [RC] odd gaited horse
> >
> >
> > > --- Linda <Elite@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > >     I have ridden an arab mare that racked!  (pure
> > > > arab, kemosabi grandaughter)   She wouldn't hold it
> > > > for long, but I knew I was feeling a rack.  She
> > > > belonged to a friend that I was riding with, so I
> > > > mentioned it.. she said "Yes, she racks.  I used to
> > > > ride her with a walking horse and she picked it up."
> > > >   Personally, I didn't think it possible, but she
> > > > definately was racking.
> > >
> > > It used to be relatively common for Arabians to rack
> > > or otherwise gait.  *Raseyn (by Skowronek) was
> > > well-known for it, as were others.  Several of mine
> > > have walks that border on some sort of "gaiting," but
> > > I don't know enough about gaited training to help them
> > > do even more.  But, every AERC ride I've been on so
> > > far I've been asked at least once if my mare is
> > > gaited. :)
> > >
> > > ~Nicole
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