> > 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
which is interesting because when immigrants came to america the working class british went to the industrialist north to find work and settled there while the aristocracy went south to buy large plantations and they are the ones who went for gaited horses, horses with high action to step over the rows of cotton and ride 20-30 miles a day at an easy gait and to pull the family wagon on sunday. janice -- yipie tie yie yo
