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Re: [RC] gaited arabs? - Maryanne Gabbani

"The Bedouin legend states that some Arabian Horses learned to "gait" when moving with the camels of the tribes....it happened to be the particular speed that kept the group together...not a fast walk, not a slow trot, but the gait (at which) the horses moved because of the camels' particular gaits." Frank

I have an Arab mare who is so competitive that she couldn't bear being left behind by my friend's 17+ hand Dutch warmblood at a trot when we worked together. She developed a lovely fast something or other that wasn't a canter, but my friend (a dressage buff who likes her walk, trot, canter unadulterated) called it 'Dory's eggbeater trot'. I had an American vet watch it and his comment was that she did a nice single-foot. I have two of her son's, neither of whom show signs of developing this gait that I absolutely love. I wish I could find more gaited Arabs here. No one knows those gaits though.

Maryanne
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