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Re: [RC] gaited arabs? - Karen Sullivan

Because it's not the footfall of a walk, it's some sort of "gait"
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Subject: [RC] gaited arabs?




  *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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