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For those of you who have many miles on gaited horses, what is the preferred 
gait of the horse over the majority of the distance?  Do you think there 
would be a difference between LD and Endurance distances?


Hi Mel,

There will be others with LOTS more experience riding gaited horses over 
distance, but I  have a little Tennessee Walking Horse gelding I've been 
doing limited distance with.  He is multi-gaited and we use them all, 
including trot.  He can fly downhill gaiting and rack in excess of 12 mpg 
(GPS), but I pretty much choose the rate of speed and he chooses the gait - 
within reason of course.

If I were going to go shopping for another TWH, I'd look at good working 
ranch and mountain horse lines.   Mine goes back to some big show horses and 
he's a little on the hot side.

Ask me in a couple of years and I'll see if I can report on riding LD on one 
of my Icelandics.

Nancy 


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