Two hundred to 300 gaited horses all in one place? I'm speechless. The last endurance ride we did, I think in my division (25 miles) there were five gaited horses. I didn't count at the time, but I think Hunter may have been the first gaited horse to finish. He was 12th with another TWH right behind him and three more gaited horses somewhere back there on the trail.
I didn't really look, at bits, but they were all flat shod or barefoot and were being ridden either bitless or with snaffle bits. Because Hunter is a racking horse, he does carry his head high and out when racking and low and nodding when doing a running walk. He doesn't RW often, but when he does, those reins are swinging from side to side like pendulums. Nancy
