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"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."  Frank

I have an Arab mare who is so competitive that she couldn't bear being 
left behind by my friend's 17+ hand Dutch warmblood at a trot when we 
worked together.  She developed a lovely fast something or other that 
wasn't a canter, but my friend (a dressage buff who likes her walk, 
trot, canter unadulterated) called it 'Dory's eggbeater trot'.  I had 
an American vet watch it and his comment was that she did a nice 
single-foot. I have two of her son's, neither of whom show signs of 
developing this gait that I absolutely love.  I wish I could find more 
gaited Arabs here. No one knows those gaits though.

Maryanne
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