>>>> thats a very weird gait he's doing there! I I believe it's the three legged horse shuffle. :p
I took that picture of Stonewall that I sent from a little video I made of him. He was trotting. He has a rather odd trot though, because, frame-by-frame, it often looked foxtrotty. But, you could see that his diagonal pairs actually land almost perfectly in unison, so it was truly a trot. I need to watch more freeze-framed videos of three-gaited horses trotting. I know that Thunder, our Arab, for instance, doesn't trot that way - no matter where you snap a picture or freeze-frame, the diagonal pairs are parallel. From watching Stonewall trot in the field and in my round pen, I would have sworn a few times that he was gaiting when the camera proved that he was trotting. His gaits would indeed be fascinating for me to study. Janice says he mostly (totally?) saddle racks or racks with a rider up. He LOOKS like a racker to me, in his conformation and in his movements. I can't quite define exactly why I say that though. I don't believe that I've ever seen an Icelandic move anything like Stonewall at liberty. Karen Karen Thomas Wingate, NC No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.503 / Virus Database: 269.15.31/1129 - Release Date: 11/13/2007 9:22 PM
