>>> The mother was then taken away and the foal was chased to watch it >>> gait. Most of the foals were not happy.
Here's another problem with people who don't know anatomy and biomechanics judging gaits...especially people with no experience outside this breed... What do they expect to see in gaits in the tiny foals? Do they not understand that even QH foals -or any three-gaited breed foals - often "gait" or pace when they are very small? That long legs and tiny-short bodies sometimes have to pace in order for the legs to become entangled? I wonder what these people would say about the "gaitedness" of a pacing Arab or QH or WB babies? Yet they terrorize the babies by chasing them without their mamas, when there's basically nothing to be learned about gaitedness at that age anyway. It's barbaric. Karen Thomas, NC
