Re: RC: gaited arabs

["Jana Crewett" <jfcr@ceh.ac.uk>]

>>> "Truman Prevatt, Ph.D." <truman.prevatt@netsrq.com> 06/21/00
01:54am >>>
Hmmmmmmmmm....... my walking horse lopes just like any other horse.
A
lot smoother grant you but with the same motion. She's done that for
almost 2000 miles. What does "lope in a lateral motion" mean.

Could it be the disunited, pacy canter that young, unbalanced
Icelandics sometimes do under saddle? It looks like a "hoppitiy pace"
as it is disunited (so the diagonal pair of legs on canter is replaced
by a lateral pair) and as the horse is stiff, there isn't much
suspension, so that the other pair of legs (the front leg that pushes
off the ground and the hind leg the horse lands on) moves "nearly
together" as well.
It's a fault, not a gait, and can be corrected by schooling. 

Jana