>>>> Right from the get-go, they hooked onto this piggy pace thing. I think it's because they don't know the gaits. ... No clinician is perfect; but knowing the people who are saying that, I know that they are incorrect. And shoot, a couple of them are now Icelandic judges! Yet they still don't know how to identify gaits!
As I said earlier, that crazy week when the Liz-bashing started on the lists happened to be the week I signed into the lists for the first time. (I think Wanda's Solon was born a couple of weeks later - when was that, Wanda? August 2003? ) I'm sure you're right, Judy. I read some of the most outlandish stuff I'd ever read about gaits. Everyone jumped on the "piggy pace" thing; sort of like a bunch of elementary school bullies calling another kid "fatty" or "four-eyes." It was just mean...but the serious thing was that I found out a lot more about the ones calling her the names than about Liz. The meanest ones were the least knowledgeable ones in the bunch! There was a bunch of garbled nonsensical talk about there being no such thing as foxtrot, that Liz had "invented" saddle rack, and that saddle rack WAS piggy pace. And one Einstein that I won't name actually said that she was pretty sure that saddle rack and foxtrot were both simply new names for piggy pace! (Duh - notice the "trot" in foxtrot and "pace" in piggy pace - shouldn't that be a clue that they are not such similar gaits...? That's how off-the-wall the talk was.) It was just crazy - I felt like I was in the Twilight Zone. I was so glad I already had six Icelandic's by then - if that had been my first introduction to the breed I would have backed away as fast as I could! Karen Thomas, NC [EMAIL PROTECTED]
