I saw a video where horses were bred to run very fast 1 leg at time. Like walking very fast.Any1 know of this?

Dallas wrote on December 21st, 2008 11:02 am :

Cant say that I have ever heard of it, but I dont doubt that it goes on !!!

Good Luck finidng out, Iam sure someone might know ??

*confused*

Cindi B wrote on December 22nd, 2008 12:28 pm :

I have never seen this. Of you find it online please post it. I would love to see what that looks like.

It sounds like something a gaited horse might do?

Happily married wrote on December 23rd, 2008 1:33 pm :

It’s called trotting! Horses have four gaits, walk, trot, canter and gallop

Animal girl wrote on December 24th, 2008 3:37 pm :

This is a pace. It was probably a gaited horse. They do not trot - only walk, flat walk, running walk, and pace (very, very fast walk), rack, and canter.
Their legs do not move on the diagonal like other horses - it looks almost like a waddle, because both right legs move together then the left legs move together.
You see this in all gaited horses such as,
Tennessee Walkers, and other gaited horses. They are also a blast to ride.

Google gaited horses - there’s tons of information.

clyff12 wrote on December 27th, 2008 2:13 pm :

I have never heard of this. And its not pacing (like Animal Girl said).

wahoo wrote on December 30th, 2008 8:16 pm :

Your soft gaited horses or single footing as some call it can move their legs in a manner that makes a very fast running walk or a rack…one foot hitting the ground at a time, and it makes for a very smooth ride . A good racking horse can go extremely fast and yet do it smoothly and with out a gallop or trot.
It does not sound like a pace, as a pace is both right legs move in unison then the left legs move in unison like the standardbreds do when in hobbles. it is a very waddley looking gait.
I have never heard of Arabian horses being soft gaited, but who knows what they have “over there”.

birdstheword84 wrote on January 1st, 2009 5:33 pm :

Hmm… I have no idea, sounds like a gaited horse must have been trotting and it just looked funny

I love my TB!! wrote on January 5th, 2009 4:57 am :

a gaited horse, maybe a standardbred ? youtube it.

smarabiansrus wrote on January 5th, 2009 10:59 am :

I have had some Arabian horses that were “gaited”. They did a very fast single foot gait….it was very smooth. The Kellogg Institute bred for this gait in the Arabian Horse breed and some of their breeding stock was directly imported from Egypt specifically for their gaiting ability.

teenytiny wrote on January 8th, 2009 7:35 pm :

Ambling horses are popular everywhere except mainland Europe, The Gaited Arabian is worth more than the normal ones and what you where seeing was an amble a four beat gait like a stepping pace not quite like a walking horse more like a saddlebred.

aurorag16 wrote on January 11th, 2009 9:48 pm :

There are two gaits that saddlebreds, part saddlebreds and some other breeds are able to be trained to do called the slow gait and the rack. Both of these gaits only have one foot on the ground at any given time and it looks like a funky walk/trot combo. The slow gait is a slow version of this and the rack is a very fast version, however, both gaits are extremely smooth and easy to sit. At saddle horse shows, you will hear people hollering and yelling as these horses “rack on” because it can help a horse get excited and increase the speed at which they perform this gait. Here is a video of a horse racking in slow motion that I found on you tube, this video is owned by americansaddlebred not me:

Sasha M wrote on January 12th, 2009 6:21 am :

My guess would be a Paso Fino. Their gaits are: the Classic Fino which is equivalent to a walk, Paso Corto which is like a trot and the Paso Largo which is like a canter. You can listen to their cadenced foot fall pattern at all gaits and they should all be in perfect sync.