>>>> i think it is a southeast/tennessee/ term. everyone around here says it. Lee says it in her book. There are other names for it tho... like KMSH people calling it a daisy cutter and the mccurdy people calling it a mccurdy lick..
I guess I missed the first question, but yes, it's not always called by the name saddle rack, but the gait itself is pretty common and very desirable...by most people. I think it's the more accepted version of the "slow gait" for Saddlebreds now, but I'm not so sure about that - they used to accept either a foxtrot or a step pace or so I've heard. It's also called the Rocky Mountain Gait, and I THINK I've heard it called simply the "mountain gait." Lee Ziegler was pretty big on settling on a universal name for the gaits, names that transcend breed. It's simply too confusing for people who simply want to understand gaits and t get local help with their trail horses to have to figure out 15 names for the same gait. Since we now have YouTube at our disposal, I've sorta/kinda been able to freeze-frame a few show-ish appearing "tolts" that people have posted. (Not the most accurate thing to do, due to YouTube's compression, but it is somewhat do-able...) I've noticed that even some of the tolts that I would have believed to have a single-foot support phase actually are two-foot-three-foot gaits, so they too are saddle-racks. Karen Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED]
