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| A pattern of movement or way of going marked by distinctive and repetative rhythm of hoofbeats. |
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| What does it mean that a horse has good gaits? |
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| A horse has smooth, collected gaits that are eay for the rider to sit adn that look plesant to an observer on the ground. |
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| What are the 5 most common gaits? |
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walk
trot/jog
canter or lope
gallop or run
back |
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| The walk is the slowest gait. It is a 4-beat gati of less than 6 feet adn is about 4 mph. Usually 3 feet are on teh ground at one time. |
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| What is the English gait that is one level faster than a walk? Western gait? |
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-English--trot
-Western--jog |
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| Describe the walk or the trot. |
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| Faster than a walk. it is a 2 beat gait. Strides are about 8-9 feet with the average speed of about 8mph for a trot and 6 mph for a jog. Usually 2 feet on the ground at a time. |
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| What is the speed of a trotting standardbreed racehorse? |
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| What is the term for the movement of English riders to a trot? |
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| What part of the trot does a rider post? |
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| What gait is faster than the trot? |
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| What gait is faster than the jog? |
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| What gait is considered to be the most comforatble gait? |
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| Faster than a trot/jog. It is a 3 beat gait with strides of 10-15 feet. The average spped if 12 mph for a canter with a little less for a lope. Alternates number of feet on the group- first one foot, then two , then one and then a period of suspension when no feet are on the ground. |
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| What does the term "right lead" refer to? |
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When the horse is at a canter/lope, the foot it appears to be leading with is the right foot. It is considered the correct lead when the horse is moving in a closkwise direction.
**note- techincal equipment shows that the right foot is the LAST to hit the ground after the period of suspension |
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| What is the correct lead for a horse travieling countercloskwise in a lope? |
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| What is a disunited canter or lope? |
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| when the horse is on one lead with the front legs and the other in the hind |
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| What is the fastest gait? |
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| What is the lenght of a throughbred gait at a gallop? |
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| What was the stride of Secretariat, the greatest Throughbred? |
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| Fastest gait. 4 beat gait. Stride lenght varies from 15 to 20 feet for most riding horses. Average spped is 18 mph. (Thoroughbreds can run 35 mph, Quarter Horses can run 50 mph. One foot on the ground at a time- period os supsension greater than lope/canter |
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| What is the name for the reverse gait? |
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| Slow deliberate 2-beat gait. Adverage stride is less than 3 fet. 2 feet on the ground at atime. Speed is not measureable. |
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| What gait is seen primerily in Standardbreeds? |
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| It is the fastes racing gaot of harness racehorses. It is a 2 beat gait with both legs on one side of the body moing together and at the same time called a lateral gait. |
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| What is a single foot gait? |
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| When a horse only has one foot on the ground at a time. |
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| What is a running walk and what horse uses this gait? |
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| Tennessee Walking Horse- fast 4 beat lateral gait- ground covering walk |
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| What is another name for the running walk? |
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| What is a slow gait and what horse uses this? |
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| American Saddlebred- 5 gaited horse--slow 4 beat lateral gait with hight leg action and animation |
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| What is another name for a slow gait? |
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| What is the rack gait and what horse uses it? |
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| American Saddlebred- five gaited horse- fast 4-beat lateral gait with extrememly high leg action |
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| What is the fot trot gait and what horse uses it? |
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| Missouri Fox Trotter- medium speed 4 beat diagonal gait |
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