>>>My first thought on looking at him is that he has a roach back. Which horse is this? He doesn't walk with a pacey walk so it is interesting that he is so pacey.
I think that's another of the terms that are hard to describe in e-mail, if we don't have specific benchmarks to judge our terms by. I've never met Janice's Jaspar, but my guess is that maybe he's pacey compared to an ideal walking horse's gaitedness. I realize now that a good walking horse will probably have some visible trot in their range (or maybe just some foxtrot) if they are to have a good running walk. My guess - and I haven't met Jaspar - is that he's pretty pacey compared to an ideal TWH, but not as pacey as the worst I've seen. One clue that makes me think that is that Janice says he has a nice canter. I think the REALLY pacey horses usually don't have easy canters...? I initially thought Sina was pacey, but she has always trotted some at liberty, but even at her paciest phase, she had a great, easy-to-find canter. (It turned out her paciness was mostly due to having a banged up rider and saddle fit issues...) I'd love to meet everyone's horses, just to see if I'm guessing all this right...:) Karen Karen Thomas Wingate, NC No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.476 / Virus Database: 269.10.2/891 - Release Date: 7/8/2007 6:32 PM "The greatest enemy of the truth very often is not the lie- deliberate, contrived and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent, persuasive and unrealistic." "All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident." ~ Arthur Schopenhauer [] The video every Icelandic Horse owner should have: http://IceHorses.net/video.html [] Lee Ziegler http://leeziegler.com [] Liz Graves http://lizgraves.com [] Lee's Book Easy Gaited Horses http://tinyurl.com/7vyjo [] IceHorses Map http://www.frappr.com/IceHorses [] IceHorses ToolBar http://iceryder.ourtoolbar.com/ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/IceHorses/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/IceHorses/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
