> > It was mentioned and encouraged to use the word
> > "gaiting" to describe
> > a horse that is doing a soft gait, or a more lateral
> > tendancy gait.
> > But here's the thing - EVERY forward movement can be
> > called a gait. A
> > walk is a gait, a trot is a gait, a canter is a
> > gait, a gallop is a
> > gait, etc....
> Yes, but logically, have we ever had anyone in the
> world say, when their horse is walking, that their
> horse is gaiting? or if their horse is trotting, that
> it is gaiting? or cantering, and calling it gaiting?
>
> I think we pretty much know that we're talking about
> gaited horses and easy / smooth gaits, when we say
> gait.
>
>
> Judy
I totally see your point, as I have thought the same thing before and
have had to talk to someone who owned a QH why we call them gaited
horses, even though his horse, did 5 gaits...he distinguised between
a collected canter and gallop and a collected slow trot and an
extended trot...I saw his point, but also said he probably does not
say his horse is gaiting, just that his his is 'troting' or cantering
or whatever. I agreed with him that all horses 'Gait' but in the
Equine world it is commonly known that a 'gaited' horse has extra
softs-smooth gaits. He said his horses trot was the smoothest he had
ever posted.....I told him I could hardly even tell when my mare
trotted.....
So it has come up before in my world.....but as far as semantics, you
are correct, all horses gait....its another example on how a word
takes on a new meaning in launguage.
Skye
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