Re: Re: Breeds / gaiting non gaited horses

["GESA BRINKS" <gesaeqfx@pe.net>]

This is exactly how I was taught to train horses.  Hurry them as fast as
they can go without trotting them.  I wasnt allowed to trot a horse for the
first 60 days of their training.  I was taught by an old
cowboy/horsetrainer.  I have taught many arabs to "gait" including my
appy/arab.  Got quite a few qtr horses to gait too. My mule will gait and my
jack has a terrific running walk.   I didnt  "hurry" the show horses tho.
The horse show folks freak out when they see a horse gait.  Something
"wrong" with that!  gesa


-----Original Message-----
From: Michelle Fink <michrowe@frontier.net>
To: Jana Crewett <jfcr@ceh.ac.uk>; Ridecamp@endurance.net
<Ridecamp@endurance.net>
Date: Thursday, June 15, 2000 10:21 AM
Subject: RC: Re: Breeds


>> Another thing I noticed on the rides over here: lots of Arabs seem to
>> have the basic ability to gait (in addition to trot)
>
>The old-time cowboys around here teach their horses to foxtrot.  They just
>walk the horse faster and faster, not allowing a trot, over rough terrain
>and they say nearly any horse can learn the gait.  It's smooth, fast, and
>sure-footed.  I followed a 78 year old cowboy in the mountains for 20 miles
>last weekend on his App/TB that he trained to foxtrot.  What an awesome
gait
>for moving over rough trails covered with rocks and roots.
>
>m (aka Michelle Rowe), CO
>
>
>=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
>Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net.
>Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/RideCamp
>=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
>