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 Posted: Mon Sep 28th, 2020 12:04
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 Horses naturally have 4 gaits - walk which a 4 beat, trot which is 2 beat with diagonal pairs of legs, canter which is a mixture of trot with one pair of legs and individual strides with the other pair so 3 beat and gallop which is 4 beat.

In the picture Scully is on her hind off and about to land the fore off and hind near in the trot stride, followed by the pause and then the near fore.

Then you have horses that tolt, a trot stride but using pairs of legs on the same side (very wobbly!) and horses that canter disunited (front legs out of sync with the rears).

All these are natural gaits. Walk, trot and canter have three sub divisions - collected, working and extended - these have different stride lengths.

Then you have trained gaits  like spanish walk and the american trotters, plus dressage moves like tempi changes, flying changes (both canter based) and things like piaffe, passage and pirouette - all exaggerated display movements.

Lol - you did ask someone passionate about horses :lol:



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