The only time a vet has questioned her soundness was after she had stepped
in a rut and turned her pasturn. I told him to look at her close after
this had happened to see if he thought I should continue. It was a mile 30
in a 100 mile ride. She was just bairly off (I could tell that riding
her). If it had been at mile 90 would have walked in okay. I pulled her
and she was sore for a about week, so the vet was right and she recovered
shortly and was fine.
>Dog judges ask that a dog show his way of
>going at a trot because of this, also, and will fault a one that paces. (I
>don't know
>of a dog breed that has pacing as a standard way of travel in its breed
>standard -
>but there may be some).
I owned a German shorthair pointer that had two gaits, pace (even at a
walk) and run. I never saw her trot.
Truman
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The race is not always to the swift, but to those that keep running.
Truman and Mystic "The Horse from HELL" Storm
and Danson "The Demon in Training" Flame
prevatt@lds.loral.com - Sarasota, Florida
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