In a message dated 2/28/2005 6:56:26 P.M. Mountain Standard Time,
whytrotfarms@xxxxxxxxx writes:
as for
trotting horses learning how to gait, hate to sound like a doubting
thomas here, but i would have to see that. are you sure that
is what's going on?
I've trained soft-gaited horses.
There are certain lines of the Arabian Horse which do, in fact,
"gait".
The Bedouin legend states that some Arabian Horses learned to "gait" when
moving with the camels of the tribes....it happened to be the particular speed
that kept the group together...not a fast walk, not a slow trot, but the gait
(at which) the horses moved because of the camels' particular gaits.
RAFFLES was a National Champion Five-Gaited Horse.....lines back to his
father (and grandfather) SKOWRONEK.
