Created a Gaited Group

[starkitten]

Everyone who loves a glide ride on a TWH, Rocky Mountain, Foxtrotter, etc..... Come join :D

[WashingtonBay]

Great! :)

[FatSpottedAppy]

Haha, unfortunately I've never ridden a gaited horse but i'd love to someday!

[starkitten]

I may be a bit biased ;) but they are alot of fun - my back thanks me daily :)

[mtnmollie]

I have a TWH but my Morgans are smoother. :D

[starkitten]

I believe that ;) I have always loved morgans too - just never got the chance to own one - but I have ridden one :)

[Ranger44]

I have Morgans also. The only one I have that has been broken is at the trainer for a refresher right now. I hope to get my first ride on a horse I own this month. We'll see then how the ride is. By the way I am quite new at most of this horse stuff. It's what brought me to the original forum to start with.

[mtnmollie]

Welcome Ranger. All of us were new when we started. LOL> :)

[Buckpoco]

Just got a walker in April. He's only three but he's a good boy and very comfortable.

[mtnmollie]

Rosie my Walker. Is she pacing? She trots too- LOL. Plus running walk. Smoothest canter of all. :)

http://i228.photobucket.com/albums/ee150/mtnmollie/Rosie/IMG_2504.jpg

[Ranger44]

Thanks mtnmollie. I'm going to try the teach an old dog new tricks thing. I wish I had started a long time ago but you have to do it when you can.

[Buckpoco]

My walker gaits (not too long as he's young), trots and canters. Also does a racking kind of gait. It's fun, isn't it? Is your horse's gait smooth? It looks like a pace but if it's smooth it's great.

[starkitten]

My walkers gaits are very smooth - i'm pretty sure he has had some heavy training and now he is enjoying the retired life with me. I'm hooked :)

[starkitten]

He does the rocking chair canter - no movement from me :)

[mtnmollie]

In a true pace, all 4 legs would be down. Rosie has 3 legs down, left front not quit down-
whatever it is its smooth. But she does get rough. :D

Gawhie - those transitions- yucky. I'm just a trail rider. Mostly we walk- so what does it matter? I started this horse when she was 4. PS. Rosie is the top horse in my signuture.

[Buckpoco]

My hubby's horse paces. It's very rough, so he pulls him up and makes him either do a running walk or canter. Question (I've always had thoroughbreds or quarter horses so the gaited is all new to me): What exactly is the difference (footfall wise) between the pace, running walk and rack??? It gets confusing. I can feel the pace, see it, but can't really name the difference. I bought the Clinton Anderson CD's on gaited horses and he takes two walkers who are rough, stiff, lazy or too forward and works on them. In the beginning the owner is bouncing all over, as is Clinton. At the end, they are so much smoother, but the gaits almost look the same, except for maybe a one foot hitting the ground a second later than the other? Is that correct?
We had a gaited horse trainer come up and work with us when we first got gaited horses.
(She does trail, not show!). I asked her what my horse was doing...he will do a nice running walk and has a faster, smooth gait he does also. (Can't hold any of them too long as he's so young, and I won't push him.) She said it was a "racky running walk."
Whatever it is it's fast and smooth. He does it right before a canter.
Any info on this will be most welcome from you experienced gaited folks.

[mtnmollie]

Good questions. In the pace the left legs move- then the right. Walkers are not supposed to pace or trot- we are not supposed let them. In walkers the trot can make the canter better; forum friends tell me. I'm a trail rider of non- gaited so dont know much.

I got in the gaited group last night- yeah! (My slow computer works better when there is less people online. )