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Re: [RC] gaited horses-long term soundness, etc. - agilbxrThat 23 year old stallion is Alpine's daddy I think. I keep getting told he's still doing CTR around this area.
I ride my 11 year old Paso about everywhere. If he's bored and just walking, he'll get trippy, but once we are moving, there isn't a problem. And if we have a technical trail, he is really good too. I have never taken him into the mountains, but I expect he'll be a little billy goat.
Now, we have only done 2 LD rides, but we are very busy conditioning for a 50 come fall. So, who knows, we'll see how the little paso does on the longer rides if we can survive another florida summer. :)
Juli and Alpine
-----Original Message----- From: Ed Kilpatrick <whytrotfarms@xxxxxxxxx> To: ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Wed, 11 May 2005 19:32:21 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [RC] gaited horses-long term soundness, etc. all this talk of gaited horses and nobody mentioned paso finos??! we have a lady down here in the southeast region who rides a 23 year old paso fino stallion in LDs. as far as i know, the horse has never taken a lame step! paso finos are tougher than a boiled hoot owl!! and smooooooth! oh my gracious how smooth! i won the PFHA(paso fino horse association) National Champion endurance horse award with my paso fino gelding starbuck in 2002. this award went to cathy barnes and her paso fino gelding tsar in 2003, and to joe ed casillas and his paso fino gelding obi in 2004.
kind of what truman meant, evaluate the individual horse, not the whole breed. pick a good gaited horse with great legs and feet, and the rest of the tools to do this sport! cowboy ed
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