On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 01:19:36PM -0600, Wanda Lauscher wrote: > But you don't go pounding down the sidewalk at a trot or gallop...I > imagine you are daisy picking until you reach softer ground.
indeed, i take all hard ground (rock, asphalt, concrete, sometimes even frozen dirt) at a walk whenever possible. (i have had a couple of mad dashes on roads to escape cars :/ ) stjarni is very fussy about footing, and when shod he doesn't care to go faster than a walk through mud, either. interestingly, he will trot or tolt in mud much more happily barefoot; i have not let him try it at a canter. that said, he LOVES to gallop in snow. (whether or not anyone's on.) --vicka
