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Re: [RC] gaited arabs? - Truman Prevatt

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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