On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 12:01:26PM -0600, Janice McDonald wrote: > As I said, I could be wrong! But I just hope his tolt doesnt suffer.
me too! we'll see. i just posted a bunch of his gaiting pictures; in six months or so i'll post more and we'll see. judy, you said a couple things about his gaits in those photos; iirc you saw foxtrot, saddlerack, and stepping pace...? > I know some disagree but in my own personal experience I have found > the spectrum of gaits rarely goes from one extreme to the other in one > horse. i'm confused...it sounds like this is true for your jaspar, but not for your stonewall, so how can it be true for your experience? sounds like your experience would contain both?? > Its so hard to get a horse to gait smooth! I guess thats why I would > not mess with one... but your Starnji is hopefully getting to be a > well rounded guy gaitwise. i hope so! he seems to be going great so far. we're currently working on different speeds at the tolt; once that is good i'm going to try to teach him to slow down a bit sometimes at the trot (his default is fast, and as long as it's even i haven't messed with it, just let him go :) --vicka
