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Re: [RC] Racking horses for endurance? - Barbara McCrary

As a child, I had a mare that was likely a Morgan.  She had a number of Morgan characteristics, but was not refined.  She had a single-foot I loved to ride.
My husband had a wonderful endurance and ride & tie horse that was 1/2 Morgan and 1/2 Percheron.  He was a consistent top ten 50-miler and placed 4th in Tevis in the late 1970s with Lud.  I rode him on one day of the 1984 XP ride.  I discovered that if his trot ramped up in speed, and he was a phenomenal trotter anyway, he would go into a rack.  Not as fast as Rowdy in the videos, but fairly fast and a gait that I could no longer post.  I just sat there and off he went.  It was a blast!
As for the videos, it was difficult to determine at that speed, but I had the impression that some of the horses were racking laterally and some diagonally.  Did anyone else see that? 
 
Barbara
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Sent: Tuesday, June 30, 2009 8:43 AM
Subject: [RC] Racking horses for endurance?

If you would like to see spectacular videos of racking horses, check out these two links.

 

 

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HuEccBod-0&feature=related

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7z8TmPRTUOc&feature=related

 

 

 

Is anyone using these types of horses in endurance?  If so, I would like to hear from you.

 

Phil Gardner

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