> >So, please, don't say that we don't have a > >history with gaited horses - ours is a longer contiguous history than > >Europe's! > > Not longer than Iceland's of course - early 10th century....
with one breed, a small number compared to here. And here we did not "breed" two of the same breed. We bred for smooth gait and temperament. how many horses are in iceland? There are 3000 horses accounted for in the county I live in, and only 130,000 people. I don't know how many of those are gaited, but quite frequently, possibly every weekend somewhere in alabama, florida or Georgia or maybe all three at once, there are rides with 200-300 gaited horses. There are field trials every weekend during the winter with 200-300 gaited horses, and we do not even have a huge gaited horse population in my area. Its mostly quarterhorses but any weekend I can go ride somewhere and count 25-50 gaited horses camping at the trail head. Florida has a huge hispanic population and culture and one thing hispanics know and enjoy is gaited horses if they like horses at all. Janice yipie tie yie yo
