On Jan 26, 2008 11:28 AM, sarah gibson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > When I post I have nothing to lose. I don't even own a gaited horse so > I could chalk it up to being new and uneducated. I could see where > breeders or show people would be reluctant to post. They have a lot > more riding on getting the gait right than I ... but I wish more > people would take the chance and post - it is a great educational > opportunity for me and I assume others as well! > > > Sarah in MT >
thats a good point Sarah, sometimes someone might post and be wrong who is a "professional" and they might feel like it could hurt their business. But if I was looking for a gaited horse to buy, I wouldnt go at all by their ability to judge gait by a photo. What would bother me MOST of all is if they said they owned a foxtrotter so of course it only foxtrots, or own an icelandic so of course it only tolts or they own a walker so it only walks or they own a racker so it only racks. Right there would be a huge red flag for me. There is so much gait terminology breed to breed, and old timers who know TONS about gaited horses will say things that you can't find in books because the terminology is different. Especially here in the south where a lot of rural people seem to make up their own language as they go along haha. I have a friend who was a big lick show person in the sixties and has been breeding sixty years and he says things like if i ask what gait a horse does, he will say "show gait". and what a show gait is to him, is a running walk. IF the horse is registered walker. if it is registered racking and he says show gait, it racks. he wont ever admit any of his are inferior in gait. But he will say "oh that one, I'll only sell him as a trail horse." ow if someone was a horse show judge and they didnt know one gait from another, I would not only lose respect for them, but for the entire registry. and wonder how a person ever got certified as a trailer or judge etc if they could not even tell one gait from another. janice -- ve haff veys to make yuu toelte!
