Mounted search and rescue

["David leadbetter" <dleadbetter1@aapt.net.au>]

T'mi
Thank you,I am enlightened!
I always  thought this sort of movement was specific to certain breeds 
etc...now I understand.
[I also discovered 'you tube' can be worth looking at.]

all the best

Linda [Australia]



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "T'mi Fi" <tfinkle@erols.com>
To: "Mounted search and rescue" <msar-riders@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Tuesday, May 12, 2009 6:29 PM
Subject: Re: [MSAR] gaited?



Linda,

A very good online source about gaited (riding) horses can be found at
<www.Lizgraves.com> There is a list of articles that contains a variety
of information about gaited horses. Liz explains a gaited horse as:

“ALL horses are gaited to me, the walk is a gait , the trot is a gait,
the canter is a gait, to me any forward movement due to and impulsion of
the body and legs in varying amounts of energy of a horse is. But since
we do have horses that do other kinds of forward movements beside the 3
basic gaits, the industry long ago pulled out the term " Gaited" to be
applied to them specifically. So in the gaited horse world this means
they can do other forward movements besides or in addition to what their
other Non-gaited Breed counterparts can do.

So " Gaited " is a catch all term for theses horses and there are many
characteristics that separate a lot of variations of these different
movements besides the basic three. They are separated by variations in
Lateral use of legs in pick up and /or set down, diagonal use of legs in
pick up and/or set down, independent use of legs in pick up and/or set
down, footfall sequences, support phase sequences and timings of foot
falls. There are many terms for the varying gaits, to name a few would
be the running walk, fox trot, saddle rack, rack. Lots of Breed Assoc.'s
have their own terms for their breeds signature gaits, but many gaits
can be the same in characteristics. An example would be the Rack is the
same as the Icelandic Tolt.”

Here is a list of popular Gaited Horse Breeds: Albanian, American
Saddlebred, American Walking Pony, Andean Curly Horse, Fox Trotting
Horse, Gaited Morgan, Gaited Mules, Icelandic, Mangalarga Marchador,
Mountain Horses, North American Single-Footing Horse, Paso Fino,
Peruvian Paso, Racking Horse, Spanish Mustang, Spotted Saddle Horse,
Standardbred, Tennessee Walking Horse and Walkaloosa

Ride safe,
T'mi

David leadbetter wrote:

> When I think of gaited I think of trotters or pacers,as in harness racing
> Does this refer to something different in the US.
> Cheers
> Linda [Australia]


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