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If you want information on the genetics of production of gait, I can send
you a series of articles by myself and another person on that subject. I
also have a chapter on that in the book I am working on (on Mountain
Horses) In general, when you cross gaited with non-gaited, you get
something partially gaited at best. Like Karen said, what gait they have
tends to be hard to keep them in. The gait gene is the walk gene run wild,
strengthened through successive generations of breeding until you get a
horse that literally walks up through the speed that is normally controlled
by one of the hard two beat gait genes (pace or trot). It is a blending
gene, so breeding gaited to non-gaited weakens it to partial gait, or even
just a fast walk. To strengthen gait, you must breed gaited to gaited, cull
the weak ones out (I've pulled papers when neccessary) and breed the ones
that are as good or better than their parents, building strength of gait by
increments, generation after generation. A lifetime project.
Annette
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> From: Sullys Maze <Sully@Forsythe.Stanford.EDU>
> To: ridecamp@endurance.net
> Subject: re: bloody shoulder
> Date: Saturday, May 17, 1997 11:40 PM
>
> REPLY TO 05/17/97 23:20 FROM ridecamp@endurance.net: re: bloody shoulder
>
> [58088] SAT 05/17/97 23:20 FROM ridecamp@endurance.net: re: bloody
shoulder;
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> Date: Sun, 18 May 1997 00:50:09 -0500
> To: "Sullys Maze" <Sully@Forsythe.Stanford.EDU>,
ridecamp@endurance.net
> From: Beaux <beaux@concentric.net>
> Subject: re: bloody shoulder
>
> >The bloody-shoulder mark may not be exclusive to Arabs. My grey
> >Arab/walker cross has a bloody shoulder mark, and I think I remember
> >someone (was it Truman?) mentioning it is found in grey TWH.
>
> Karen,
>
> Can you tell me a bit more about your horse? Seems to me that the
> TWH/Arab cross would either be the perfect cross-country horse (stamina
> with smoothness) or just another jug-headed trotting horse. ;) What did
> you get? And do you know any other breeders?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Beaux
>
> ----------------
> Beaux,
>
> For years I thought that would be the ideal cross. A lady posted to
> rec.equestrian looking for a vet, since she was going to be buying
> an Arab/TWH mare. I talked to her, said if she ever sold the horse,
> I would be very interested. I ended up with the horse, as this lady
> could not handle her.....
>
> Anyway, she is a little of both (what you mentioned above). She is
> very Arab looking (similiar to some of the big, heavy-boned rush
> creek Arabs. She is just under 15.2 hands. She has something of
> Arab head, very wide between the eyes, with her jawbones very far
> apart, but it is a big head! One of the reasons I have dealt with
> her ornery attitude is that she has a wonderful, smooth, slow
> canter, and incredible stamnina and recoveries. I DO trot on her,
> but she can do some sort of a singlefoot or gait, but it is too
> hard to keep her in it. I used to own a Foxtrotter, and discovered
> that I really liked the trot, and missed it. My foxtrotter was not
> very smooth.
>
> I don't know any breeders-_ ran into this one by a fluke. She has a
> lot of good qualities-she drinks at every water source, eats,
> trailers, camps, ties, does gates, all those things. But she is
> a very alpha mare, and when I got her, was getting away with nipping
> and crowding people-just a nasty mare! Two years has made a big
> difference, and I am ending up with a very dependable, enjoyable
> trail horse, which comes first, before we do much endurance.
>
> You should post to Truman Prevatt-I believe he is crossing Arabs and
> Walkers.
>
> Karen
>
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