> why other people with Icelandics talk about how rough their trots are > while > my horses were so smooth.
It could be a jog, trot without suspension: http://iceryder.net/jog.html > me while mentoring people, they would say that Remington was tolting or > "shuffling" (especially when going downhill quickly) when I thought he was > trotting. Sometimes it takes "downhill" for a horse to be able to gait, as gravity helps pull the front end down (like the wheelbarrow). > Experienced endurance riders would ride behind us and ask what gait he was > doing. I would say trot and they would say they didn't think so. I > also > would get photos of him on the move from the ride photographers and could > not > identify the gait from the footfall. Can you send some of the pictures for us to look at? Thanks! > description of foxtrot seemed to fit at least some of the time. I think a lot of Icelandic Horses fox trot as their intermediate gait. I think we have to do-away with the "four gaited" / "five gaited" labels. They just are not right. Judy http://iceryder.net http://clickryder.com
