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oh, this is near and dear to my heart, and endurance related!   the name of my farm is whytrot farms.  my slogan is,  "why trot when you can run wide open!"    i ride trotting horses and  i ride gaited horses too.   i have done endurance on both.   my gaited horse of choice is the paso fino.   you can have that head bobbin stuff, rackinfool, i dont like it.  i have ridden that running walk, and i will say it is smooth, but i sure dont think it is as smooth as a good gaited paso fino.   and their heads dont bob!   i have ridden lots of different breeds of gaited horses, TWH, racking horse, paso fino, peruvian paso, mangalarga marchador, and colombian trote y galope.     my favorite is my paso fino gelding starbuck who has a wonderful, natural fourbeat gait, but in addition to that, the little bugger can RUN!!   (which, by the way, is another natural gait!)  cowboy ed