On Tue, Sep 11, 2007 at 01:09:00PM -0700, Judy Ryder wrote:
> Do any of the trainers know how to train the fox trot to a horse that shows
> that tendency?
remember that the icelanders view tolt as a spectrum, from "trot"
through "trotty tolt" through "perfect" through "pacy". and they don't
insist that every horse have a "perfect tolt" any more than they must
have a "perfect trot", for your basic riding animal. so what you call a
"fox trot" they'd just call a "trotty tolt" and work with as such.
--vicka (whose icelandic trainers have seen stjarni all over the spectrum,
as have those here who've seen the photos i've posted,
and while the trainers have *encouraged* an even four-beat tolt
have not particularly gotten on my case about it, esp. given
that they tend to see five-gaited horses as likely to be "a bit
more lateral" at the tolt anyway)
