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MB,

I suspect he is doing a "stepping pace" which is a broken lateral gait 
and not a true pace. The stepping pace is not too bad to ride, but I 
find the flat out standardbred racing pace to jar my teeth loose. Give 
me a trot any day.

Truman

Maryben Stover wrote:

> My spotted saddle horse gaits, paces and trots at different times.  He 
> gets going in that pace and can fly and I find it comfortable.  You do 
> rock from side to side but you get in the rhythm of it...mb
>
> On 7/17/07, *appleg8* <rackinfool@xxxxxxxxxxx 
> <mailto:rackinfool@xxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>
>      Do ya'll just dislike the
>     pace because it's not as smooth as the singlefoot? Is it worse than a
>     trot? Am I the only one who ever read "Oklahoma Pacer" in their
>     school
>     library?
>
>     Angie
>     *~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~*
>     ** 
>     *Angie, you need to ride a pace to see just how terrible it is on
>     your body. Yes a trot is far better to ride than a pace. You can't
>     post a pace so you are flung from side to side like being on a
>     boat on high seas! It is rough as hell, torture really. *
>     ** 
>     *It is a lazy gait for the horse and one I have yet to see any
>     horse get out of. Also the pace is not an acceptable gait for any
>     gaited horse. In walkers they used the standardbreds as foundation
>     horses, twenty two to be exact and their pace in developing the
>     gaited walkers way back when. You can breed pace to trot and mix
>     in a whole lot of things and eventually you get our nice walking
>     horses. In the Big Lick they want pace back in there and they
>     breed that back into them now for that high lift front end action
>     that they covet so much. That is what is ruining the current TWH
>     horse and we are having so much pacing blood in the new horses.
>     One reason, the main reason I won't buy walkers from the southern
>     states. *
>     ** 
>     *The line of walking horses that Truman and Karen Sullivan own and
>     myself are horses that were bred out in Montana and for decades
>     were worked on ranches running cattle, packing and diligently bred
>     for this use. They went to Canada as well and continued their hard
>     work and selective breeding. These are the horses I buy and look
>     for when brokering for people. These are the horses that are doing
>     so well in our sport against our arab counterparts.  All
>     gait....no pace! *
>     ** 
>     *I would go back to riding arabs before I would ever ride a pace.
>     It ain't a purdy ride or sight.*
>     *amber
>     g8nfool
>     www.applegaitnendurancehorses.com
>     <http://www.applegaitnendurancehorses.com/> *


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