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Re: gaited arabs



When I read Truman's post, I thought he was referring to a leg yield in the
canter (not a half-pass, a leg yield), which, as I said to him, is something
a lot of the Showjumpers out here use to supple up their horses before
jumping.  I don't like it - I worry about speedy cuts, although I think it
is handy for a horse to understand the concept of moving laterally off the
leg in the canter, in case it's necessary.


The canter strike-off is, after all, a lateral movement, no?


Tracey


-----Original Message-----
From: Jana Crewett <jfcr@ceh.ac.uk>
To: ridecamp@endurance.net <ridecamp@endurance.net>; ssatt44@hotmail.com
<ssatt44@hotmail.com>; truman.prevatt@netsrq.com <truman.prevatt@netsrq.com>
Date: Wednesday, June 21, 2000 12:00 PM
Subject: RC: gaited arabs


>
>
>>>> "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
>
>
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