i recently trained a paint horse for a friend of mine. she was
watching me ride one of my paso finos and asked if i could teach her paint
horse how to do that. i told her, sorry, it is in the hard wiring.
if i could teach it to a horse, i would have a corner on the
market. ed
*I'm not sure about that, Ed. I have had
three horses now that taught themselves to gait because I was really
consistent in not allowing jigging.....they discovered if they "gaited" they
could go faster and get to the front of the group. The Arab and
Arab/Morgan learned how to singlefoot; the Anglo Arab does a broken
pace. Who has ever heard of a gaited Anglo? A friends Rushcreek
gelding also does a broken pace, and I have seen another friends
little polish gelding do it too....
The Arab/walker I had did not gait....but had a
very fast walk, nice trot and very, very smooth canter.
I had a Foxtrotter for awhile, I really did not
enjoy the foxtrot and that convinced me to stick to trotting
horses.
