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As far as my research has ever shown, there's no gait gene, let alone one that
passes only through one side.  It's based on conformation and muscling.

My Arab x Rocky Mountain Horse foxtrots, but only because he's BUILT for it and
because after I bought him at 6yo I walked walked walked him as fast as he
would go until his "four beat muscles" and muscle memory were built up.  Then
he developed a foxwalk (slower than foxtrot) and foxtrot.  He does not foxtrot
in the field for more than a few strides, but he will do it under saddle.  Most
of the time we choose to do a hard trot though.

Half-gaited horses are a crapshoot.  You're just as likely to get something that
isn't built for ANY intermediate saddle gait as you are to get something that do
any number of intermediate gaits (one or more than one)!  Gaited horse owners
are frequently heard to say "if you want gaited, buy gaited, don't breed hoping
for gaited."

-Sharon L. in Maine
www.zegifts.com



Quoting Jody Rogers-Buttram <dragnin100@xxxxxxxxx>:

> Hello RC,
>
>     Someone told me that a gaited horse gets it's "gait" from the mother.  I
> know of some 1/2 arabs that gaited very well.  But they were out of gaited
> mares.  Does anyone know how true this rumor is?  Could an arab mare have a
> gaited offspring?
>
>   Jody
>
>   PS.  Cash Pony I believe would gait if trained that way...but his mother
> was the TWH.
>
>
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