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Re: [RC] trotting and gaited horses P/S - Truman Prevatt

My mare had a full body clip while she competed.

Truman

Steven Proe wrote:
P/S, Clipping was a must.
Steven
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2004 7:21 AM
Subject: Re: [RC] trotting and gaited horses

 
 I have asked a few of the top gaited endurance riders about any horses they know that have completed 50 milers complexity in gait consistently. I am doing research on this as the whole gaited horse in endurance is a pet project of mine.
 
*Will be very interesting to hear your results. I have talked to Truman about this also, and a fellow who had done Tevis on TWH some years ago.  The imput I got was that you have to be extremely careful in selecting a TWH, as some are extremely athletic and surefooted.....and some are not!
 
 Downhill they can make up time provided they don't get pacey. A pacey horse downhill is extremely dangerous..it can fall down way too easily.
 
*Going uphill is just as bad.....how I got one good scar on my face, when a foxtrotter I briefly owned came crashing down to the ground going up a very steep, narrow hill the Arabs just cruised up....put me off gaited horses for a bit!
 
 
I LOVE gaited horses...they are fun to ride,
 
*My Arab/TWH was a great mare, smooth and tons of endurance.  She was pretty heavy bodied and her recoveries were not as good at the pure Arabs...but she could go all day, was extremely smooth and surefooted.  I think gaited crossed on Arab is something not enough breeders are doing.....
Karen
Mel
 
 

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We imitate our masters only because we are not yet masters ourselves, and only

We imitate our masters only because we are not yet masters ourselves, and only

because in doing so we learn the truth about what cannot be imitated.

 


Replies
[RC] trotting and gaited horses, Sundaez
Re: [RC] trotting and gaited horses, Karen Sullivan
Re: [RC] trotting and gaited horses P/S, Steven Proe