Well, I will just have to say that if I wanted to post I would ride a
trotting horse.
I don't think I understand...? No one is proposing that a person post to a
soft gait, only to a trot. If Icelandic's trot, and many do, why not give
them the same courtesy we give any horse?
If we all expected (or hoped for) the same thing from a horse, there'd only
be one breed. I was attracted to Icelandics for a long list of reasons one
of which is the fact that trot is often a gait they do naturally. I know
some people who ride gaited horses choose gaited because they hate posting,
but I love a good trotting horse.
I have had people blast me because I allow my TWH to trot, but I figure he's
my horse. He's not for sale. It has not effected his ability to gait. I
love to trot sometimes. And I love that he knows when we reach the top of a
hill and start down the other side, he gets a little check and switches to
gaiting. I don't enjoy trotting down hill, but this guy can fly when he
switches out of a diagonal gait.
I suspect that it's because trot is not a normally accepted gait for TWH's,
his trot is not nearly as nice as Tosca's.
Although I know people who change their stirrup length for trotting, I
don't - too lazy. In fact, I can't think quite how that would work. At the
top of every hill I would stop for a minute and change my stirrup leathers?
I'm really too lazy.
Nancy
