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Sounds like you developed a nice "flat walk." A good TWH can do a flat 
walk at 5 to 6 mph. There is some overstride and with that some head 
nod. The front end is light with all the drive coming from the hid end - 
in fact you should be able to really feel the thrust in you hips.

Once you had that, you should have tried to get him to push a little 
harder and go into a running walk ;-) .

I would not discount the Appaloose in him from carrying some sort of 
gaited wiring.

Truman

rides2far@xxxxxxxx wrote:

>  
>
> >  *I'm not sure about that, Ed.  I have had three horses now that 
> > taught themselves to gait because I was really consistent in not 
> > allowing jigging.....
> >    
>
> O.K. then, where is the line between "gaiting" and a horse just having a
> rediculously fast walk? I used to ride a 16 hand Appaloosa whose mother
> was reg. QH and a very foundation type App sire. No gaited horses in the
> woodpile. I too worked hard at never letting him jig but would let him
> walk as fast as he liked. He got faster and faster and developed a bit of
> a head nod and one day someone told me they thought he was gaiting and I
> was quite offended (I did not *want* an ex-race horse, barrel racing
> racking horse! I just considered it a heck of a walk, and still do. I
> know we spent an awful lot of our time on trailrides getting 100 yards
> ahead and then circling back to the pack. Think we went twice as far as
> most of them.
>
> Angie
>
>
>
>  


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