>>>> Hi Nancy...great to see ya here! Riding an IcePony is the best of both worlds. You have a trot and a easy...smooth gait.
You know, Raven, I'm not sure that's really more true with Icelandic's than with other breeds, unless the breed is strongly lateral - like too many TWH got to be after a few years of show breeding. I know people who trot other gaited horses too. It may be talked about within this breed more than some, but what people do and what the horses are capable of are often not the same thing. I think it's an individual horse thing, not so much a breed thing. BTW, Nancy, I have a 21 y.o. TWH mare (Holly) who can trot and trot well too. I got her when she was three, and for the first few years, I trotted her. I didn't have a clue how to teach her to stay in any gait consistently and I wasn't about to send her to a TWH trainer. She quickly learned to stay in trot when I posted, so post I did! So, we were closet trotters, until I regained my interest in gaited horses, when she was about ten. She's a small TWH, about 14.1H, so it was because of her that I got interested in Icelandic's. Karen Thomas, NC [EMAIL PROTECTED]
