On Wed, 11 Jun 2008 09:50:34 -0400, you wrote: >In the Icelandic evaluations, the walk is only given 1.5% weighting. That's >odd to me >since the walk is "the mother of all gaits."
It's only fairly recently that walk has been included in breeding assessments at all - mostly because it was so rare to see horses in Iceland with a decent walk as few of the trainers bothered much with it and the horses were so hyped up at the assessments that finding a decent walk was often nearly impossible. Mic Mic (Michelle) Rushen ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Solva Icelandic Horses and DeMeulenkamp Sweet Itch Rugs: www.solva-icelandics.co.uk -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
