TWH and Trail Skills

Tennessee Walker: Here's a very nice video showing a Tennessee Walking Horse practicing a trail skill.

The horse is TWH Chief's Fancy Blue Eyes and rider is Antoinette Austin. Video provided by Lu Ann Cooper.

Gaits of Gaited Horses

New DVD, Understanding Gaits:

http://www.howetheywalk.com/dvd%27s.htm

Tennesee Walking Horse 1957

An old video of Tennessee Walkers, from 1957.

The Horse That Wouldn't Trot

Great reviews on this new book, The Horse That Wouldn't Trot:

Imus Saddle

Interesting information on this video:

What Gait / Perdla

What gait for this Icelandic Horse, Perdla:

What Gait / Icelandic Horses

What gait are these Icelandic Horses doing?

Saddle Fit for High Withered Horse

My friend has tried fourteen different saddles on her high-withered Missouri Fox Trotter during the five years she has owned this eight-year-old gelding. She has tried a Corrector pad, but it sawed on his withers.

Right now, she is tryng a Wintech Australian-style saddle with Cair panels and adjustable gullet, with a supracor pad. I rode him with it today and it left an even sweat pattern, but another friend suggested that the saddle was bridging. Certainly the horse was happier than the last time I rode him with a Tucker High Plains Endurance saddle. That time he was fussy and rung his tail quite a bit.

She wanted me to ask if anyone on the list had dealt with a horse with a back similar to this.

Weight Changes Gait

Elephant gaits are generally limited to different speeds of the walk; slow, medium, and faster. Their gait can be similar to a running walk or a saddle rack.

Except... if the weight is removed... such as in swimming... elephants are able to move diagonally similar to the trot of the horse.

Many gaited horses show only a trot at liberty; but when carrying a rider, the additional weight brings out an intermediate gait such as fox trot, running walk, saddle rack, rack, stepping pace, or pace.

Natural Gait Paso Fino

Posted by the owner of the horse: I bought this horse from a man who buys horses at auctions and resells most of them to slaughter houses. He told me he bought him at an auction in Oregon in November, he is now happily living with me in Washington. He is a very well trained gaited gelding who was obviously loved at one point in his life. I would love to learn more about him. I named him Little Guy, he is a sweetheart. If this horse looks familiar and you think you may know him, please contact me.

What Gait / Missouri Fox Trotter

What gait is this Missouri Fox Trotter doing?

What Gait / Walkaloosa

What gait is this grey Walkaloosa doing?

Student Wins Public Speaking Contest with Speech About Soring

Emily Woolley is a Mount Si High School (Snoqualmie, WA) graduating senior, who joined 4H eight years ago with her horse named Red. In 2006, she won the Washington state 4H Equine Public Speaking Contest with a speech about soring.

"It’s prevalent in the gaited horse industry when people use chemical means, so they have a more flashy gait," Woolley said. "They put chemicals on their horse’s legs and on the bottom of the feet and add pads to the feet, so when the horses hoof hits the ground, it hurts and they lift their leg higher."

Congratulations to Emily, who is also class valedictorian!

Link to original article: Snovalley Star

What Gait / Pancho

This is Amanda's Peruvian Paso, Pancho.

What Gait?

What gait is this gaited pony doing?

What Gait / TWH

What gait is this Tennesee Walking Horse doing?

Confidential Soring Interviews

From the recent FOSH conference, confidential soring interviews with those who sore Tennessee Walking Horses.

What Gait / Galde

What gait is this cold-blooded horse in Norway doing?

What Gait / What Breed of Horse

The rider is from Thailand, but it is unknown where the riding and the video took place.

What breed is this horse? What gait is it doing?

Level 3 Parelli with Gaited Paso Horse

This is a Level 3 Parelli Natural Horsemanship audition with Jackie and Mystic, the Paso Fino gelding.