I am curious about the conformation of this horse, particularly how you
would
describe the slope of pasterns, shoulder and croupe. The foxtrot is
usually smoother than a plain trot although from your description, it
sounds like he was still closer on the diagonals than would be normal for a
Foxtrotter.
Duncan Fletcher
dfletche@gte.net>
I'm not really sure that what we are talking about here is a Foxtrot. Is
the Foxtrot an extended gait? I thought it was more of a obvoius
disassociation than one that's only barely detectable?
Anyway, the two horses that could do this gate best were ~16h., big
shoulder, well laid back, prominant withers, flat croup, short pastern more
upright than shoulder, somewhat longer backed than normal Arabs, long
necked, deep hipped, well sprung barrel.
Linda Van Ceylon
lvanceylon@vines.colostate.edu