Janice McDonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> kirjoitti: > >>>>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?
They knew the difference and on purpose rode the horse in distinctly more diagonal gait than the "ideal tölt" (even set down, lateral pick up) because it was more natural for that horse. But they still called it tölt (even though it wasn't rack or even saddle rack anymore). Krisse
