> I don't mind stepping pace at all - as you say, it's comfortable - but > I have found that Icelandics which do stepping pace a lot do seem to > stiffen up and end up doing hard pace which isn't comfortable at all!
Jaspar moves into hard pace when asked for speed faster than his stepping pace can go. So I bump him into his easy canter. But if with fast fast horses its not something you can ask them to do for a long time. Janice-- even good horses have bad days sometimes.
