Janice McDonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> kirjoitti: > if they know they difference, but still call it "tolt", i wonder why?? > Is it because they dont want to admit a horse does any gait but a > "tolt" (rack) or is it like Vicka says, to them, every soft gait is > called tolt?
There are no other names for soft gaits than tölt. There are no "native" gaited breeds here (or in Sweden where this horse and her owner live) and there aren't almost anything else than icies and the name for gait has been imported with horses. All gaited horses I have seen have been Icelandics except a few gaited individuals of "non-gaited" breeds whose owner's usually are not happy at all that their horses are gaiting. > and then how do you explain all those names, skeith tolt > brokk tolt, etc. Those we haven't imported, because it's just "pacy tölt" and "trotty tölt" and we do have own words for pace and trot. But I think they tell the whole story, it may be very lateral or very diagonal but it's still some kind of tölt (untill it's lateral enough to be called pace or diagonal enough to be called trot). Of course they also imply that there is just "tölt" somewhere in between which is what the gait should be. Krisse
