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Re: [RC] trot- vs.-pace Eldon Eadie timing range - Nancy Sturm

My daughter has a very nice Standardbred gelding that does a true pace and
a gorgeous huge trot.  She actually likes the pace (go figure) and I really
do not like it, so when I ride him, we go for the big trot, and  when she
rides him, she will sort of sway along at the pace.  This doesn't seem to
be a problem for the horse.

The horse paced 1:59 (for the mile) at the track.

Nancy Sturm



[Original Message]
From: Truman Prevatt <tprevatt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 6/1/2005 9:01:08 AM
Subject: Re: [RC]   trot- vs.-pace Eldon Eadie timing range

Ridecamp Guest wrote:


Please Reply to: Ray o'Donohue rno2m@xxxxxxxxxxxx or

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Truman always keeps me on the right trail;half of what little I've

figured out about horses grew out of his pointers...Here is the gait leg
position/timing range plotted out in much detail in the Eldon Eadie video:
Hard Square Trot/Fox Trot/Running Walk/Stepping Pace/Hard Square Pace.(This
is a very difficult presentation to follow,but well worth the effort.He
does not discuss the rack except in passing).I am assuming Truman's trotty
Walkers never do a hard pace.Given the genetic considerations involved,it
is hard to imagine a horse naturally performing all the gaits in the
continuum,absent an awful lot of human intervention.



 


This is a good tape. And you are right - none of mine will pace excpet 
for maybe a step or two. You can tell this gait is not very comfortable 
for them. They might go on a little on the lateral side going down a 
steep hill. Yep the true pace and ture trot probably don't show up on 
the same horse, however, I've heard that some of the old racing 
standardbreds could do both - but this is not under saddle. To get the 
running walk I need to "bump 'em up a little."  I've also heard that the 
horses that are very pacey also have a difficult time in the canter - 
which makes sense.

Truman


-- 

"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm 
not sure about the former."  Albert Einstein

 



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