> I wonder how much the turn towards classical > dressage had to do with it.
It is my understanding, and I'm not sure where I read this, that gaited horses went out of style with aristocracy and there followed the rest of the European world. I'm certainly not a great historian so that could be totally wrong -- Laree in NC Doppa & Mura Simon, Sadie and Sam (the "S" gang) "Yet when all the books have been read and reread, it boils down to the horse, his human companion, and what goes on between them." - William Farley
