This message is from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In a message dated 6/13/99 2:59:43 AM Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
<< From: "B. Hendricks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Singlefoot, amblers, and trotters This message is from: "B. Hendricks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I agree Karen - had to print this one out and put it on the wall. I'd still like an answer to my question... >> Bonnie, Just wanted to share a quick story with you about our senior stallion, Dusty. Let me preface this by adding that most of the Fjords I've had in my barn for training have had a nice, long strided, ambitious, ground-covering walk, not at all lazy or ambling. Our senior stallion is extremely ambitious and always on a mission - could it be testosterone motivated, always looking for the next pretty girl?! Anyway, he seems to carry everything to the edge of extreme, not wanting to miss a single thing on the planet. Sometimes think he wishes God would've given him one more eye so he could see more! His logic is hysterical. He knows that when I want him to WALK, that is exactly what I mean - no trotting. SOOOO, he's figured that if I can count 4 beats, that constitutes a WALK. He will lower his head and BOOK - still counting 4 beats. It sounds like a machine gun the footfalls are so rapid and it is extremely smooth. I am not sure what, if it even has a name, he's doing. Don't know if that is a true singlefoot or just what. Would like to have someone watch it sometime to figure out what it is. Anyway, whatever it that he's doing, he's figured out that he won't get busted if Mom can count to 4!! Gayle Ware Field of Dreams Eugene, OR
