>>>> Is it supposed to be a one-foot / two-foot support just at a slower speed? or does a "slow tolt" have a two-foot / three-foot support which makes it a saddle rack?
Beats me. At the one and only Icelander led clinic I've ever been to, the clinicians kept calling what appeared to me to be almost a pure pace as "slow tolt." But then, they called the faster broken stepping-pace "tolt"... All that mattered to me was that the horses were getting more and more stressed as the clinic progressed, to the point initially very sweet mare was on the verge of rearing...yet they labored on, apparently oblivious. That's why my first traditional Icelandic clinic may well be my last... Even Cary, gait-challenged as he is, muttered something about "piggy pace" on that occasion. He's gait-challenged, but at least he can distinguish trot and pace from the "soft gaits." Karen Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED]
