--- In [email protected], "Janice McDonald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > For example, running walk is in the center of the gait spectrum. How is that named? > > > > tolt. > > > > --vicka > > > > oh gosh Vicka, please PLEASE post that to the world group, a lot of > people there think if a horse does a to-die-for runningwalk it should > be eaten for dinner... > Janice-- > yipie tie yie yo
Yes, I was told to sell my horse by a clinician, well Sigrun, she did say it:) basically it was because he did not enjoy being forced into frame for a tolt when he is really a more diagonal horse, and he will let you know when he does not like something. He is actually the safest horse I have ever met, very, very safe, and smooth too, actually. His foxtrot was called "faking tolt", maybe that is the Icelandic term for "foxtrot"? I was told over and over that he WOULD have been eaten if he had been born in Iceland, and then that he should have been eaten, this is what eventually led to a major falling out with the "trainer" (not Sigrun), when I told her I did not want to hear that one more time, that was the end of it. I've about reached the end with this discussion, and glorifying Icelanders and their terminology. I am going to use the American terms for different gaits. I would be perfectly happy just cutting the word "tolt" out of my vocabulary, I don't think I really use the term anyway. If people want to show, they need to know what is meant by it at a show, what is expected, otherwise I don't find it helpful at all to use the word "tolt" for running walk, or stepping pace, or anything else on the spectrum. It is too broad a term for use in the US. We have a wealth of words to describe gait, that are non- judgmental (not like faulty tolt). This is not just a discussion about semantics, just an intellectual discussion, horses have been hurt by this ignorance, and if that's what they want to do in a different country, that's fine, but it doesn't cut it over here, if they want to sell horses to us, or be our trainers, they had better get with it, apparently they can still suck in the beginners, but we have trainers over here who are miles ahead of what is being taught at Icelandic centered clinics in the US. Kim >
