Gaited horse peolpe!!!

[katarine]

Chip AKA Push In the Chips BFF (Cash In The Chips X Pusher’s Choice Lady) 15h black 7 YO TWH gelding. A very bright, forward, curious, brave horse. Bought as a 4 YO for my SO, he’s waaaaaaaaaaaaaay too much horse for him but he and I are finding a good deal between us, really happy with him. Racky, developing a run walk as he learns he can relax u/s, beautiful canter, incredibly fast gallop. Handy handy handy. Typical Pusher horse- hot, bright, smart, not tolerant of BS. But honest honest honest.

At his first trail competition here…at that point in his life he was bothered by sacks of cans and I didn’t push that issue at the start…nor did I push backing through the poles. It’s hard for horses to learn they can manage that at first.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxbO6enYtIY

and Maggie, SSH/TWH, Battle Pusher Lady (Nods Battle Magic X Pusher’s Pussy Cat)…shown here last summer getting 45 days of tuning to find her rack,she’s naturally very pacey. The trainer is riding her. A big baby, 16.2 hands, will be 4 in April 2009. A lovebug, very sweet natured and born gentle. Raised her from a weanling. Shes my husband’s trail mare…bringing her along pretty slowly, short rides, turned out all the time, flat shoes on the fronts only, nothing weird. Love love love this mare. I’m riding her some to help her find her canter and get her forward. Prone to napping NOT a typical Pusher horse, more like a giraffe.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIyyC-EXmSM

[Countryclips]

I have 3 Icelandics, 2 that are in their late teens that are great at the tolt, trot and canter. 1 5 year filly that is still learning that being slow and lazy is not what she is supposed to do under saddle. Also 3 Mountain horses. They are the ones I love to ride as they want to please and they gait very well. Also 2 Foxtrotters that seem to have the most trouble staying in gait. But my 10 year old mare has too much go so likes to step pace and jump up and down when held back. She has given me more sore backs than any horses I have ever had. She is currently at my daughters farm working on her confidence. Along with other training issues. I ride barefoot, bareback and bitless on most of them. I would love to try endurance on one of them, but never seem to get it all together to get one is good enough shape. Course I have too many in the first place so just need to concentrate on which one could do it.:lol::

[LuvMyNSH]

[QUOTE=gabz;3773921]

Can I ask what brand of saddle that is? Did you have any trouble fitting him?[/QUOTE]

It’s a Fabtron endurance. She’s actually been pretty easy to fit, and I have luck with most semi-QH trees as long as they’re short enough.

[gabz]

@LuvMyNSH;3774518

It’s a Fabtron endurance. She’s actually been pretty easy to fit, and I have luck with most semi-QH trees as long as they’re short enough.

Awesome. That’s the saddle that I had fitted to my MFT. I’m having a bit of trouble with the CF rigging, but getting the hang of it. I bought a countour tacky-too saddle pad, I’m hoping that will help it on his round, wide body (there’s reason he was named “Bentley”… LOL)

[Apollos]

I purchased a RMH, Drifter, recently. I have plans to do CTR’s and Endurance with him.

[katarine]

I like the Fabtron’s, nice saddles, well made, very comfortable.

[MikeP]

Mine is a nine year-old Missouri Fox Trotter. Liver Chestnut and a big girl, 16 hands. I ride her barefoot, with an easy-on-the-horse bit.

She has a good foxtrot, as she was very set in this when I bought her. She’s also very smooth when asked to go slow on logging roads. What she really wants to do is run, but I’m not much into that. (Slow and easy, that’s me!

I trail ride/cruise around the farm and surrounding forest lands. No shows or competition. Also keep two quarter horses for the teenage girls in the family to ride. My MFT walks along faster than the QH’s natural speed.

[Griffyn]

7 yr old RMH mare-- but for all the talk about chocolate- shes plain bay. What a love! But she will go (rack) all day, shes been to kentucky trail riding and all around. Need to be a bit careful with the leg on her, shes got a great gas pedal! Her canter has gotten MUCH better but took some work, it was a bit scary at first!

[Dajuliz]

I have ridden only walk, trot, canter horses all of my life and never had anything gaited. We recently adopted a Paso Fino mare of Columbian bloodlines. Oh my! What fun! That little mare’s walk is fabulous. Her corto is smooth. Her largo is smoother. Her canter is wonderful. She is sure footed, unspookable, entirely rateable, game and tough. What a gift she has been! I really look forward to trail riding her this year. While I’ll keep my dressage horse to show, I am really enjoying this calm little mare with alot of spirit.

[jazzrider]

[QUOTE=GallopingGrape;3772467]
12 Year old Spotted Saddle Horse named Bacchus… saddle rack and can get pacy sometimes… We do local western shows and lots and lots of trail riding![/QUOTE]

I think it’s funny that your name is GallopingGrape and your horse is Bacchus – I assume you’re a wine afficianado? :lol:

We have two gaited horses that we trail ride.

My 15.3 hand, 13 year old TWH Luke, who regardless of my skills (I’m relatively new to gaited horse riding) has a wonderful flat and running walk. He also has a sweet little canter, though my hubby yells at me when we use it! I ride him in a Tucker Plantation saddle. He’s got a huge walk and loves to go, and is so well behaved and willing. He’s turned out to be the perfect horse for me.

My hubby has a 17.1 hand mutant Spotted Saddle Horse (also 13 years old) named Rocket. Rocket is a racking horse, and after a year or two of confusion they have finally learned how to be consistant together and get a beautiful rack out of Rocket. He can also trot and pace, and canter – but it’s truly ugly. :lol: Rocket has a puppy dog personality. Happy, curious, food focused, wanting to please. Great, great horse. He’s ridden in a custom made Schleese (English) saddle, because his back was just to flat and short to find a saddle that would work for him.

[Guilherme]

We’ve nine Mangalarga Marchadors (plus five in the “cooker”). Ages range from 4 years to 25 years.

Gaits range from a lateral marcha picada (a “stepping pace”) through a marcha de centro (an almost exact replica of a running walk of a 1930s era Walker) to a the marcha batida (a broken trot). Some horses perform more than one gait. All also have excellent, comfortable canters.

We trail ride, Fox Hunt, and do military competitions with ours. The MM horse is an excellent “road horse.” In 19th Century America (and 20th Century Brazil) roads were often of marginal quality and a road horse had to have a quick step, comfortable way of going, even temperment, and the abilty to handle obsticles (including the ability to jump logs, washouts, etc.). And to stay sound for these activities, day in and day out.

Go to http://www.usmarchador.com/mangalarga_marchador.aspx for additional information.

G.

[DairyQueen2049]

2 TWHs

Grace - 11 yr old TWH mare that has lots of go and should have been born with a Tiara

Gunner - 8 yr old gelding for DH - he’s a gem - pocket pony, never sets a foot wrong and is just an all around good boy to and for everyone.

We trail ride - A LOT.

[arena_run]

I just love how everyone seems to spell out the personality in their horses. One thing I’ve found about gaited horses is they really seem to be ‘out there’ w/their atnics. The ones I’ve met are playful, curious, and seem to really want to please, or at the least to ‘do right’.

They can be TOO playful and curious sometimes though.

Ya’ll come check out this forum dedicated to gaited horses.

horsefeathers.yuku.com

Just tell them fourh mom sent you. sylvia

[Painted_Horse]

I have 3 MFT and 1 NSH

My MFT come from one mare and two of her offspring. A 5 year old buckskin filly and a 6 year old Black gelding. The filly and her mare are both about 14.3 hh tall and the black mft gelding and the 14 year old NSH are both 16.0 hh tall.

And we do lots of trail rides.

[skip_rainy_shi]

I have 2 TWH mares. one a 14yr old black mare, she loves to canter, i love her stepping pace. she is ridden in a walking horse bit and western saddle. she will neck rein or direct rein.

the other is my special girl a 4 1/2yr old black mare that i have owned since the day she was born. she has some messed up legs with angular limb diformitys in both front legs. 3 years ago she has a 25 percent chance of being pasture sound after surgery. we did surgery and i started riding her at 4 and she has been sound. she is also ridden in a walking horse bit and western saddle, and we started doing longer trail rides with her this summer. and i hope to get her out and about more this coming summer.

[Leather]

This past fall I finally fulfilled a dream of mine and got a Paso Fino. I’m pretty sure my friends thought I was nuts selling a 16.1 stout quarter horse for a 14.1 petite Paso (I’m 5’8").

Belleza is pretty much what Dajuliz described in her PF. I’ve heard riding a PF described as “being strapped to a bullet that you can guide with your mind.”

My friend/barn owner seems skeptical that this little squirt of a horse will be able to keep up with her 17+ hand draft crosses. I can’t wait until we go out together and she experiences first hand a PF on a mission. :yes:

I will do trail riding with her, and if things go well I might even try foxhunting her. The only problem with that is I will always be the gate person since I can mount from the ground! :lol:

La Belleza de Catalan and me on New Year’s Day:
http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j115/jovianrider/IMG_1901.jpg

Belleza meeting her new herd mates. The grey is one of those draft cross behemoths:
http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j115/jovianrider/IMG_1918.jpg

http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j115/jovianrider/IMG_1919.jpg

Meeting the Boss Mare:
http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j115/jovianrider/IMG_1937.jpg

[JollyBadger]

I have a ten year old TWH named Badger (aka “The Big Bad” when he and I have different opinions). Bought him when he was three and a half, and we’ve been though a lot together. He’s solid black with just a few sprinkles of a white star on his forehead. However, by late summer he tends to bleach out to almost a dark copper color. Actually, it’s a very handsome color for him. As the saying goes, “a good horse is never a bad color.” And ol’ Badger is a heck of a good horse!

[scrtwh]

Two walking horses,

Candy, 10-year-old, bay, sabino mare, 16h’s of high-strung love … she is GORGEOUS and gaits like a monster, we show in 3-gaited TP and pretend to do Level one gaited dressage. She is much better at the dressage than I. But … we have a lot of fun, well, I do anyway. She is also my trail buddy and camping partner. She does it all.

Beau, 16-year-old, bay gelding, 15.2h’s of joy. He is my hubby horse. Takes everything in stride, nothing fazes him. He is built like a light draft, down to the flags on his fetlocks. An absolute doll … when my kids were younger, they and thier friends would crawl all over him and he stood like a statue, kissing them if possible as they ducked under his head. A big dreamboat Annie.

Legacy, 19-year-old chestnut ASB, but … he is not five-gaited, but as sweet as sugar and try’s everything I’ve ever asked him.

And an OTTB, and a little QH.

Love them all, they are fabulous.