>>> I also say trot. I think it's a constrained and bastardized version of some gait, probably closer to trot than anything since it's very diagonal, but not a true trot. A trot doesn't have a single-foot support phase like this one does, nor should a trotting horse appear to be leaping in front. Sigh. Do these people have to make everything screwy...? It's not "collected" and it's not relaxed - I'd call it an interfered with gait...I seem to remember Lee Ziegler talking about this "leaping trot" - wish I could remember her words.
Karen Thomas, NC
