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Well Nancy,
Actually we just must have a great attitude, represent our breeds by 
out preparing the arabians and having our horses rock solid ready. They 
really do have some
advantages and I understand that. I finished Paul's event tied with a 
lovely woman on a 20 year old arabian and we rode together the last 8 or 
9 miles. We talked about a lot of training issues. I had put in more 
than 200 miles more training for the event than she had yet at the same 
speed, my guys hrt rate was still 2o beats more.  The fastest I have 
vetted down on heart rate is about 6 minutes, and that was with walking 
in.  So, we must understand those challenges and deal with them with 
smart hard work and humor. It is not what happens to you in life that is 
important, it is how we deal with it.

As far as all four legs being the same on the "trot out". You might 
have that work for a running walk, but I cant run fast enough (and I am 
a marathoner) to put my best horse into a rack during a trot out.  If 
your slow gait is a saddle rack, amble or foxtrot (especially a foxtrot) 
all four legs will not be doing the same.
 One of the nicest moments in the race sunday was riding with the 
leading arabians at about the 25 mile distance and one of them said, 
"your horse is running in the front and walking in the back!"   I got to 
explain what the foxtrot gait was.

Keith and Sandy Kibler
Shawnee Sunrise Farm
Gaited Endurance
   
Nancy Sturm wrote:
>  I AM bothered when vets don't make an effort to understand gaited 
> horses--but am not bothered when it takes them a bit longer to 
> mentally process a gaited horse for an anomaly, since we just don't 
> see that many of them.
>
>
> I've been riding LD's for a couple of years on a little TWH.  I tell 
> the vet "This is  a little gaited horse, but he usually trots in 
> hand."  De. Jen usually answers "Pick a gait, any gait, and stay with 
> it."  Others have said "As long as he 's the same on all four legs."  
> At one ride I didn't mention his gaitedness and he trotted out, but 
> gaited back.  Mike Foss asked, "A Tenenssee Walker?"
>
> It's really not been that much of a problem.
>
> Nancy
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heidi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > Don't you still just look at the hip/shoulder fall?  I realize the timing
> > might be different in a gaited horse, but after you get a feel for the
> > timing, it's still just the evenness of the hip/shoulder fall isn't it?
> >     
>
> Not "just" that, no--although that tells you a lot.  One also looks for the symmetry of head movement, the evenness of reach and footfall, etc., and if the surface is at all hard, one listens for evenness.  I really like examining horses' motion on a firm surface, because often one can HEAR an offness before one can see it.
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> Heidi
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