Hi Judy >>>When you go to evaluations, do you show slow tolt? If so, what are you doing?
We have not taken any of our horses to evaluations. >>>>It's more of a pleasure gait, one that you'd use on the trails to have a nice smooth ride. Easy on the horse; easy on the rider. Probably the gait that most people use as an every day gait (unless you're bombing thru the neighborhood like crazy). What gait do you usually use on the trail? Can you get some video? I would say it depends on the horses, the terrain and the group we are riding with. I would say sometimes tolt and sometimes it is probably a saddle rack, lots of trot, some canter. We don't ride in neighborhoods, but on back roads and through fields so there is no traffic. Pretty hard to get video from the side when riding on a dirt road. It will be easier to get it on our track and we will try and do it tomorrow during a riding clinic when were are going to ride different horses to show a variety of gaits and let people see what they look like so they can also put them together with the feel when they are riding. Robyn Icelandic Horse Farm Robyn Hood & Phil Pretty Vernon BC Canada www.icefarm.com
