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Re: [RC] [RC] gaited arabs? - melinda harrelson



i dont know about gaited arabs. the one i have ridden was the roughest ride on the planet. i also ride a half bred arab she has a lovely trot but definetly not a gait. i know of one mare who is half qh and half twh. she got the gait gene and she is as smooth as silk to ride. she also throws gait to her babies. they are all smooth to ride. as far as appys go. i know of one that i ride quite often that is also as smooth as silk to ride but he came from a twh show barn. they had been trying to breed to get color and gait and it took ahile. he is black with a white blanket and he is a gaitin fool.

ps. i have heard that getting gait from a non gaited horse generally comes when you breed a gaited stallion to a non gaited mare. but it is always a 50/50 chance.

 

i believe ed bred a paso and a mustang and got a gaited fool. right ed?




melinda harrelson

>From: Truman Prevatt <tprevatt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>To: rides2far@xxxxxxxx, Ride Camp <RideCamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: Re: [RC]   gaited arabs?
>Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 20:59:33 -0500
>
>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
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>
>--
>
>?It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn't matter
>how smart you are. If it doesn't agree with experiment, it's wrong?
>Richard Feynman
>
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