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No idea, he's not registered and I have no idea where he came from.  Sure wish I
did, I know a lot of people who'd love to own his siblings!!!!!!!
-Sharon L. in Maine


Quoting Dawn Carrie <rdcarrie@xxxxxxxxx>:

> Just out of curiosity...is his sire the Arab or the RMH?
>
> Oh - I just remembered a 7th half-gaited horse...another Arab/TWH, also with
> the TWH as the dam.  This one doesn't gait.  I don't know if they've every
> tried to get him to gait or not.
>
> Dawn
>
>
> On 7/17/07, Sharon Levasseur <sharon1359@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 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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