> > >>trainer ever put an Icelandic Horse into a fox trot? or a running walk? > > > > > > Yes - but not on purpose.
>>>>I haven't seen it but I've heard stories ;-) Last summer in Sweden I rode a >>>>horse that did both fox trot and running walk and anything more lateral was >>>>not really natural for her (in four days I rode her she never once tolted). >>>>I commented about that to her owner (who trains horses and riders and >>>>competes with her own horses) and she asked what FT and RW were. And when I >>>>explained she said that yes, when competing with that mare they let her >>>>"tolt" get quite diagonal because that's more natural to her and she is >>>>more relaxed then (which means she gets better marks) but that it's a very >>>>fine line to keep her gait close enough to tolt (and by the way I don't >>>>think they care much if "tolt" in slower tempo is saddle rack rather than >>>>rack) so the marks don't get worse because her tolt is too "trotty".<<< but they did differentiate, correct Krisse? I mean, they knew the difference and did not refer to all soft gaits as "tolt", right? Janice-- even good horses have bad days sometimes.
