Do ya'll just dislike
the pace because it's not as smooth as the singlefoot? Is it worse than
a trot? Am I the only one who ever read "Oklahoma Pacer" in their
school library?
Angie, you need to ride a pace to see just how
terrible it is on your body. Yes a trot is far better to ride than a pace. You
can't post a pace so you are flung from side to side like being on a boat
on high seas! It is rough as hell, torture really.
It is a lazy gait for the horse and one I have
yet to see any horse get out of. Also the pace is not an acceptable gait for any
gaited horse. In walkers they used the standardbreds as foundation horses,
twenty two to be exact and their pace in developing the gaited walkers way
back when. You can breed pace to trot and mix in a whole lot of things and
eventually you get our nice walking horses. In the Big Lick they want pace back
in there and they breed that back into them now for that high lift front
end action that they covet so much. That is what is ruining the current TWH
horse and we are having so much pacing blood in the new horses. One reason, the
main reason I won't buy walkers from the southern states.
The line of walking horses that Truman and
Karen Sullivan own and myself are horses that were bred out in Montana and for
decades were worked on ranches running cattle, packing and diligently bred for
this use. They went to Canada as well and continued their hard work and
selective breeding. These are the horses I buy and look for when brokering for
people. These are the horses that are doing so well in our sport against our
arab counterparts. All gait....no pace!
I would go back to riding arabs before I would
ever ride a pace. It ain't a purdy ride or sight.
