On 2/22/07, Wanda Lauscher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Finding Dagur has a lovely smooth gait, was just icing on the cake but > we won't be asking for it unless he offers it, and then it will be > used sparingly. > > Wanda >
that is a great plan... with my stonewall, we plodded around in the roundpen a long time and I never saw gait, only trot. Then the very first time I rode him outside the roundpen (he wasnt ready, I know that now) I just let him go and he was nervous and tense (i know that now :) and then he just took off, the very first time on his back that he went faster than a dogwalk, he hit an amazing smooth saddlerack, and then after about 500 yards saw a blue water hose and went down in the front like a cat and bloop I fell off :) I never worried about gait again. I knew it was there. never tried in any way to tack it or bit it or ride it in anyway. Cause I knew it was there and just didnt even worry about it. Now he is the nicest gaiting horse I have, probably one of the very few only nicely gaited NATURAL gaited barefoot horses in this part of the world :) i am just full of regret tho, that i immediately started riding him with the fast horses and gave him the idea I only wanted him to fly... THAT was my mistake. janice-- yipie tie yie yo
