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Fw: wide gait in hind end





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> From: Eric & Gail Hought <hought@humboldt1.com>
> To: bluwolf@earthlink.net
> Subject: Re: wide gait in hind end
> Date: Tuesday, January 20, 1998 9:33 AM
> 
> My first endurance horse was fast like that.  She was a quarter horse. 
> Very fast, too competitive, stayed sound (Was sound when she died at age
> 28).  
> I've always thought that all horse move wide behind when they learn to do
> what we call an extended trot.  Some call it a racing trot.  I would
think
> is the only they could do it without interferring.  I thought that most
> breeds of horses you might use for endurance would be capable of doing
that
> type of trot.  I have noticed it takes some a long time to learn it.  I
> usually just let them work into it on their own.  I think most of them
need
> to have built up good muscle strength and conditioning first. But some
are
> just naturals at it right away.  That's my .02 anyway.
> 
> Gail
> 
> hought@humboldt1.com
> 
> http://www.hought.com
> 
> 
> 
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> > From: Linda S. Flemmer <bluwolf@earthlink.net>
> > To: Kathy Myers <kathy@nvolve.com>
> > Cc: ridecamp@endurance.net
> > Subject: Re: wide gait in hind end
> > Date: Monday, January 19, 1998 6:55 PM
> > 
> > > >Most Standardbreds have a wide gait in the hind end 
> > 
> > Kathy Myers wrote:
> > > Actually, some good Arabs move quite wide in rear too...
> > > is it a pedigree thing?
> > 
> > My husband's TB/QH cross travels this way.  He is very atypical for a
QH
> > cross...(sadly mistaken for a Standardbred or Morgan something cross) 
> > He "squats" and "spreads" as he picks up a big, ground eating trot that
> > has been clocked by car at 22 mph.  Too fast for Rocket & I to keep up
> > with at a trot.  Doesn't sound breed related, to me.  Major learned to
> > do this over a period of his first 2 years of conditioning.
> > 
> > Linda Flemmer
> > Blue Wolf Ranch
> > Bruceton Mills, WV
> > 



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