>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWbrRTD5-5A
>>
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPfo3aOodTg

> This one is bobbing up and down sometimes. I'm not really sure. Mostly
> it's still. I have a feeling it's supposed to be still because it's
> racking.


We weren't so concerned with the gaits in these videos, but the action of 
the head.

In the first one of the palomino, the head isn't being held by the rider 
very tightly.  The horse has use of his head.

In the second one, the horse is framed by the rider, fighting the bit, and 
held too tightly.

This is an exercise to look at different things.  In Icelandic Horses, that 
head tossing, up and down, side to side, tipping of the head at odd angles 
has become common place and accepted as normal.

Should it be?


Judy
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