On 9/17/07, Karen Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I always found that paso fino gait > to be annoying - sort of much ado over nothing, and going nowhere. What > possible reason is their to show knee action in a slow-ish soft gait? >
yeah but the fino is the natural gait of the paso fino. much ado of nothing and going nowhere, but something the horse does at liberty without devices. Of course in the show ring I'm sure they managed to 1. breed it out of them and then 2. put it back in them with better living thru chemistry and/or pain if not surgery to remove actual body parts they need to function. if you go to the paso fino website you can click on a video of El Chino the famous dancing stallion and you can see he is just on the end of a lunge line having a blast doing the fino. but like any gaited horse, they also do the other easy gaits and some do and some dont and the fino is the main show gait and some dont do it and like the icelandics in showing, it would be a miserable trail ride doing those show gaits. a fino on the trail would be about as much fun as the flying pace i would think. anyway. janice-- yipie tie yie yo
