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| shah |
Posted - 02 Jan 2010 : 6:42:21 PM
Thought I felt something odd when Mush was walking towards home on our hack yesterday and had it confirmed while hacking today - he paces! Incredibly comfortable, like floating in an armchair!! Haven't ridden a pacer for many years but last time it wasn't an arab.
How peculiar - anyone else with a pacer?? Is it common in arabs? |
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| Arachnid |
Posted - 04 Jan 2010 : 09:37:05 AM
As you know Spider can pace too, but I've never been able to ask for it. Actually I sort of discourage it in case he prefers to pace than trot. Its very comfortable though and he certainly covers the ground.
We rode Mush and Spider out together yesterday and they have similar enormous walks and very long strides (Mushammer slightly has the edge on Spider which annoyed Spider no end)It bodes well for the endurance season as hopefully we can ride together  |
| shah |
Posted - 04 Jan 2010 : 07:33:03 AM
I'm glad there are lots of other arabs out there pacing! Would love to try and see if I can get him to do it when I ask for it, may need a bit of of work though!
I thought only icelandics or icelandic crosses did the tolt? That's another super comfy gait. |
| jillandlomond |
Posted - 03 Jan 2010 : 10:38:04 PM
Hi Rosie,
This is an Icelandic doing Tolt.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7rWeWymJDw |
| rosie |
Posted - 03 Jan 2010 : 8:24:25 PM
I've ridden a pacer once & found it very strange indeed!
justine - wots a 'tolt'? |
| Libby Frost |
Posted - 03 Jan 2010 : 6:41:05 PM
when i was out in New zealand i rode a pacer on a friends station mustering up cattle, was a fabulous ride |
| justine |
Posted - 03 Jan 2010 : 6:23:44 PM
Had a mare last year, did not pace but tolt! really comfortable!
She only did it hacking. Must have been a natural instsinct as I broke her and know her history.
Ali Jamaal and Shaklan lines.
She now lives in Germany as a super riding horse. |
| jo78 |
Posted - 03 Jan 2010 : 1:13:24 PM
Lol, Holly i was thinking the same thing! Maybe im dim too! But i get it now! X |
| philwood |
Posted - 03 Jan 2010 : 12:08:52 PM
I HAVE A THROUGHBRED MARE WHO PACES I USED TO LOVE RIDING HER SHE IS RETIRED NOW AT 27, BUT I DID BREED 4 FOALS FROM HER NONE OF WHICH PACED.
DIANE |
| carole ferguson |
Posted - 03 Jan 2010 : 09:40:30 AM
My 3/4 Saddlebred mare Astarte has always paced - I had to teach her to trot as a yearling for in hand classes. She still paces rather than trot - and used to go into pace when jumping combinations in show-jumping competitions to get the correct distance - as she has a very long canter stride. I find the pacing is about the most comfortable when riding - and she can keep it up for ages.
She has a naturally high head carriage - and I have to tell her to get her head down to trot.
I was told by Cheryl Lutring - who had Asti's sire - to get her to trot by keeping her head lower - and running uphill with her - and it worked.  |
| Holly |
Posted - 02 Jan 2010 : 10:54:53 PM
thanks kharidian...yep makes sense now |
| Kharidian |
Posted - 02 Jan 2010 : 10:07:31 PM
Holly,
"Pacing" is a two-time gait but, rather than in trot where the legs move in diagonal pairs, when pacing the near and hind legs on the same side move forward together. Does that make sense or have I not described it very well?!
Caryn |
| Holly |
Posted - 02 Jan 2010 : 9:19:42 PM
Sorry for being dim but what do you mean by 'he paces'?
thanks |
| Kharidian |
Posted - 02 Jan 2010 : 6:54:01 PM
Kharidian (Roger) did as a youngster - when he was "bum-high" he couldn't co-ordinate his legs properly, either loose in the field if it was on a slope, or under saddle. He outgrew it with maturity. BTW I didn't think it was comfortable - more like riding a camel!
Caryn |
| MinHe |
Posted - 02 Jan 2010 : 6:49:56 PM
Originally posted by shah
Thought I felt something odd when Mush was walking towards home on our hack yesterday and had it confirmed while hacking today - he paces! Incredibly comfortable, like floating in an armchair!! Haven't ridden a pacer for many years but last time it wasn't an arab.
How peculiar - anyone else with a pacer?? Is it common in arabs?
Not common, but it does occur. Some Arab foals pace before they can trot properly - once they can trot, they seem to 'forget' how to pace. The Basilisk line (of which I have 3) has produced at least one recognised and successful gaited horse - but that was in the US, where people are more tuned up to identifying it!
Keren |
