>>> I was looking all over for canter pics to see if anything looked like that, but couldn't find anything, it did occur to me, but I decided it looked pretty lateral, but maybe not?
I THINK you might say that canter has both lateral and diagonal components...? I think what tips me to thinking canter, is that rack is a one-foot-two-foot support gait. The only way a horse can balance on a single foot is with speed - he'd topple over if he stayed on one foot for very long. I don't get the feeling this horse is moving at extreme speed. There doesn't seem to be an extreme "reaching" with his legs, but instead it looks fairly relaxed to me. Canter has alternating one-foot, two-foot, three-foot, no-foot support right? So even though there is a single foot stage, it's split with three other support stances, so the one-foot support doesn't last as long as in rack/tolt. And of course, I could be all wrong, but that's what makes me think what I think. :) Karen Thomas, NC -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.432 / Virus Database: 268.17.18/662 - Release Date: 1/31/2007 3:16 PM
