On Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 09:08:51AM -0700, Nancy Sturm wrote: > In the beginning, one woman claimed Hunter was scaring the other horses. > I'm not sure I ever bought into that because one time she rembers in > particular I wasn't riding Hunter, but I did wonder if his different > sounding footfalls were a signal to the trotting horses that something was > wrong - he was afraid- therefore they should be.
yesterday i took stjarni in a fourth-of-july parade, and we rode back behind a group of three-gaited drill horses from new hampshire. definitely the one at the end was a bit freaked out as we tolted up behind them -- i suspect the fast four-beat sounded like two trotting horses from behind. --vicka
