Ridecamp: Re: [RC] [RC] [RC] Born to Trot?

That I completely agree with!

My up-and-comer's (4yo and 3yo) have great walks.  My 4yo consistently gets 
8's on his free walk in tests, even when he is horrible on the rest of the 
test.  Head goes down and forward and he really looks like he has someplace 
to go and only allowed so many steps to get there.  Huge overreach for a 
14.2 hand horse!  Even when he is stiff coming from stable, or it's very 
cold out, he has significant overreach and really troops along.  And once 
warmed up from stable, or out in pasture, the swing in his walk is great!

Same with my 3yo.  Great walk, 2-3 hoof prints of overreach.  She actually 
has a good suspended trot, but seems lately to prefer the canter...  Nice 
clear true 3 beats.  Not "up" enough for dressage, but plenty forward in 
reach.  She's not under saddle, so no work started yet on "improving" her 
gaits.

I don't hold out any hope of getting my 12yo to "develop" a good walk <g>.

-Tamara

> From: Truman Prevatt <tprevatt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reply-To: tprevatt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> To: Tamara Woodcock <plasmatica@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [RC]   [RC] Born to Trot?
> Date: Tue, 28 May 2002 08:39:48 -0400
>
> My neighbor who rides Grand Prix level dressage as said many times, to
> look for a horse with a good walk and a good canter and forget about the
> trot. A good trot can be taught, a good walk and good canter has to be
> there.
>
> Truman
>
> Tamara Woodcock wrote:
>
> > Hmm..  My training numbers must be *way* off then...  a 15mph canter?
> > That would be closer to hand gallop for us...
> >
> > I want a nice steady 8mph trot and a 12mph canter...  And I would
> > absolutely love to get an actual honest clockable 4mph walk...
> > Without having to use *my* legs to keep it up.  Sadly my horse doesn't
> > have this walk on his own, more like 2.5 to 3mph...
> >
> > -Tamara


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