[drivingpairs] Re: ADS rule changes

I'm a lurker out in New Mexico.  However, I had two friends with Tennesse 
Walking Horse mares that showed them as a pair in NM and AZ in open driving 
competition to a restored runabout back at the dawn of driving here.  They 
worked beautifully together and often won classes.  Some judges did seem to 
have a problem with the gaits, but most appreciated how well they worked 
together.
Mary Mitchell
Phantasy Farm  
 
 
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From: gedeckt@xxxxxxxx
To: drivingpairs@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Fri, 5 Jan 2007 1:20 PM
Subject: [drivingpairs] Re: ADS rule changes


Let's put this back on topic by answering... historically, did anyone ever 
drive pacing pairs? 
 
On Jan 5, 2007, at 11:52 AM, Beverly Means wrote: 
 
> 
> I hadn’t heard that there are Morgans that pace… 
>   
> Having a good deal of experience with Standardbreds, many more of > which 
> these days are pacers than trotters, the pace is still a two > beat gait, the 
> difference of course that in a trot the opposing legs > move together and 
> with a pacer the two legs on one side move together… > it’s a very 
> rocking back and forth type feeling.  (Picture how a camel > looks when they 
> travel at speed) 
>   
> As far as I know every gaited horse has a fourth 4 beat gait, like a > walk 
> is a 4 beat, only the 4th gait is at speed… 
>   
> Saddlebreds generally just do the walk, trot and canter, with a lot of > 
> animations. 
>   
> The ones shown as gaited do the Rack… an amazing spectacle to behold… > 
> again it’s a 4 beat gait at speed… ( actually had a standardbred that > 
> racked out loose in the field, with no equipment and no long weighted > 
> toe… made my heart sing to watch him, especially because I got him > with a 
> leg fracture and had nursed him over the 3 months it took to > heal him) 
>   
> I’d like to know more regarding the Gaited Morgan. 
>   
> Beverly Means 
>   
> 
> From: drivingpairs-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > 
> [mailto:drivingpairs-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of marged harris 
> Sent: Friday, January 05, 2007 8:35 AM 
> To: drivingpairs@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> Subject: [drivingpairs] Re: ADS rule changes 
>   
> so "gaited morgans" pace?  And American trotting bred ponies pace as > well?  
> This is unchartered territory for me.  How about saddlebreds? 
> 
> Janice Ventresca <jaye@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: 
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> 
> On Jan 4, 2007, at 4:09 PM, marged harris wrote: 
> 
> > Are Fresians considered to be "draft" horses?  Are hackenys > "gaited?"  
> 
> A gaited horse is one that doesn't trot as a normal gait, like a pacer 
> or Tennessee Walker so Hackneys would not be "gaited". 
> 
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