>>>> Thanks so much, Karen! I have not received your first post yet...probably will arrive on Saturday ;-) . I found Lee's book last night and now that I have an idea where to look....
FYI, just as a caveat, I mostly make my calls from my experience, plus what I remember from Lee's book. Thus I don't claim to know more than Lee did, not by a mile! And always remember that there are minute phases in between the sketches she provided in her book, and rarely does my camera cooperate to catch the precise phase of her sketches! Do you have the movie mode on your digital camera? I REALLY love using QuickTime to go through the gaits, frame by frame. That catches so much more than the stills do. You lose a lot of the resolution when you post them on YouTube, but you can enjoy full benefits on your own PC. I've caught a few cases where my eye told me either step pace or saddle-rack, but the frame-by-frame told me another story. This is really helping train my eye, I think. That level of detail may not be so interesting to most trail riders, but as a breeder, I think it's very important that I understand the difference. I certainly don't want to be breeding pacey horses to pacey horses. I shiver to think about what happened to the TWH breed in just a few generations by doing that. (I love a saddle rack though.) Karen Karen Thomas
