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[RC] [Guest] gaited horses, pulses and stuff - Ridecamp Moderatored kilpatrick whytrotfarms@xxxxxxxxx hi gang, well, there is a lot of good information out there. if i spent as much time on ridecamp as i wanted to, i wouldnt get anything done!! i have ridden and worked with many gaited horses, twh, racking horses, peruvian paso, paso fino, crossbred gaited horses(kentucky mountain/peruvian!), quarterhorse/paso fino cross, and even a colombian trote/galope! ever heard of that? i even crossbred a paso fino stallion to an blm adopted mustang mare and her little filly has that four beat paso gait.(oh, do i have an idea for a new registry?!) well, all horses are fun, but for me, gaited horses are even more fun! most of our horses are paso finos and when you see those newborn babies who are just barely dried off get up and do that little fancy footed four beat gait, then you KNOW! its just as natural as the sunshine! you cant teach that! in all the gaited breeds, there are some horses who just naturally gait better than others. in the show ring, the paso finos are divided into 3 classifications, pleasure, performance and classic fino. all of them exhibit the natural four beat gait, but to different degrees of quickness and length of stride. and guess what? they are born with it. i have examples of these on my farm. i have ridden some paso finos that didnt do a four beat gait, but trotted. its the same with some of the other gaited breeds, most of them have it, some of them dont. if they dont have it, you cant teach it to them, if they do have it, you can enhance it by learning to ride that horse in a way that maximizes its natural ability. most gaited horses do better with their head slightly higher than the withers. i think this enables free movement of the shoulders and in turn, better leg movement. i have spent a considerable amount of time studying video footage of gaited horses in action in order to better understand the movements. that is the best way to tell and you need to watch it in slow motion. some collect quite a bit on their own, some dont. collection of the head is desired in the showring, but not essential to the horses' ability to do its natural gait. some gait quite well "nose out". well, one of these days, i will bring my trote/galope horse to a ride and just blow everybody's mind. you just have to see it, i cant even explain it! but guess what? it is natural too. nobody had to teach this horse to do what he does. and about pulses! are they talking about going to 56? some horses shoot up to 85 when they see a garbage can! heck, maybe 60 is what we need to do for the longer rides, and for the lds. i think most horses can do this IF they are properly conditioned and ridden in a manner consistent with their ability. i have a mustang that can run all day and get down to 56 in about 3 minutes, and a paso fino that can match that. both of these horses have a resting rate of 30-32. and i want to know how the heck do you get a horse's pulse up to 210? shoot them out of a cannon? more later, i promise!
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