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I owned an arab who taught himself to singlefoot because I wouldn't let 
him trot going home.  I owned another one who jigged for 20 miles once. 
 He probably could have learned to gait if I'd had him long enough to 
encourage it.  The arab I own now has a really slow walk so I decided, 
during Day 2 of the Bryce Canyon ride last year, that I would teach him 
to gait in order to speed him up.  He did learn he had to walk faster 
but I doubt he'd ever learn to gait because he just isn't built for it. 
 My Spanish Mustang gets accused of being a Tennessee Walker but had a 
great trot and would never learn to gait.  Each horse is different!
Laney

Karen Sullivan wrote:
>  
>
>     i recently trained a paint horse for a friend of mine.  she was
>     watching me ride one of my paso finos and asked if i could teach her
>     paint horse how to do that.  i told her, sorry, it is in the hard
>     wiring.  if i could teach it to a horse, i would have a corner on
>     the market.   ed
>      
>     *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.....they discovered if they "gaited" they could go
>     faster and get to the front of the group.  The Arab and Arab/Morgan
>     learned how to singlefoot; the Anglo Arab does a broken pace.  Who
>     has ever heard of a gaited Anglo?  A friends Rushcreek gelding also
>     does a broken pace, and I have seen another friends
>     little polish gelding do it too....
>      
>     The Arab/walker I had did not gait....but had a very fast walk, nice
>     trot and very, very smooth canter.
>      
>     I had a Foxtrotter for awhile, I really did not enjoy the foxtrot
>     and that convinced me to stick to trotting horses.
>     However, I do like a very fast walk/gait.
>      
>     Karen


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