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

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