On 7/3/07, Judy Ryder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > blah...and them people think that if you do not have a video of it > > and play it in slow motion, it can not possibly be a good TOLT/Rack. > > First, I have to say something in regard to Janice. For the people newer to > the list, you may not be aware of the abuse that some of us have taken for > speaking about gaits and good horsemanship. > > Sometimes it makes us a little touchy. > > In this breed, we are in a big learning curve. > > Many times, when someone says their horse is "tolting", it isn't. > > It behooves us to know what is, and what isn't, tolt. >
and i realize i probably come across as a huge PITA know it all because i forget to say each and every time I feel like i was the dumbest when i got my first gaited horse and had so much to learn, learned a lot, and still cant even believe how ignernt I am. thats what I meant by I am not talking down from an ivory tower, i didnt mean that i thought others were, i just meant I'M not because I certainly have as hard a time as any figuring things. for one thing I can see a foxtrot in pics more than i can see anything else, a trot, a pace. But from there it gets muddled. for one thing to me a speed rack and a flying pace are identical. (I am talking in pictures here) but i get stepping pace and saddle rack in pics wrong most of the time! altho in the saddle I know the difference, and its very subtle, in my horses. Just the way my seat and waist move, in the stepping pace it moves rock rock side to side, in a saddle rack its almost like my butt goes in a fast tiny circle. When Teev does his fast prancey walk which i think is a foxwalk, there is a sensation of it being a runningwalk yet more animated and prancey feeling... slower but somehow more animated. a true runningwalk is the hardest to explain but easy to define. It feels like nothing. Like a dogwalk but fast and elegant. it is my favorite gait, because to me it is so rare, a very precious rare gift from my fox, who also has another gait that i suspect is just his runningwalk when he gets going good--- it turns into pure butter. No wonder plantation "masters" started breeding for gait... Janice-- yipie tie yie yo
