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Let's see you Gaited horses

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I have owned roughly 6 or so gaited horses in the past 12 years. We bred a couple mares and now I don’t ride gaited horses as much, even know I’m debating on getting out of barrel horses and going backed to gaited.
The one Tennessee Walker we still own. He is 11 years old, registered with champion show bred lines. We don’t show him as he isn’t show ready. He is 15.2 hands tall and is a gentle men. He only likes going fast and is a blast to ride. We got him in 2004, as a trouble maker and crazy horse. He has turned around a lot. Still has some work to go on him. He is my dad’s main trail horse. Hopefully I can start showing him in local shows to. He has a great show gait, and he is kept bare footed or has regular trail shoes on. He is also amished trained to the buggy. These two pictures are of him out in the pasture. I will find some good riding ones. I will also find some photos of the other gaited horses we have owned.


 
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This is Baby Girl, my five-year-old SSH. I got her about 10 months ago. Our purpose in life is to do trails -- CTRs, endurance, show, and pleasure. Baby Girl is also fond of jumping, dressage, and obstacle courses. Baby Girl is a very honest sweet heart of a horse. She is made of sugar and love.

More pictures in my "barn". I'm lazy with the uploads tonight.
 

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This is my gaited 3 year old Diablo. He is a mixture. His daddy is a saddlebred/Foxtrotter mix an his mother is Quarter horse/and Tennessee Walker. He is such a beautifully gaited horse I can't wait to start riding him this fall! And such a sweet natured horse as well. I wish I knew how to jump horses cause he would be amazing at it. When he jumps my fence which is every once in awhile he trots up to it stops rears up on his back legs and hops over like a bunny. My friend didn't believe me till one day my appy was being mean to him and she came to me saying your horse just jumped your fence from a dead stop.



 
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This is my 5 year old RMH/Morgan Legend's Captain Jack. I was the second person to see him after birth, he was still in the sack and hadn't even stood up yet. He's just a touch over 15hh and a bit of a Houdini,lol. He's extremely smart and has an overabundance of personality, cleans up in halter classes and has a lovely gait. He's not a daisy clipper but not so much animation it takes away from the smoothness. I don't show much anymore, we mostly just trail ride and he looooves it. He's my mountain goat,lol. My computer is fussing with me about the pics, this is all I could get loaded,lol (His ears are laid back because there was a mare trying to steal his nummies just out of the shot,lol)
 

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The first three pictures were taken Labor Day, 2010.

This is TWH Duke, my heart horse. He is 23 in this picture and was 16 in the avatar picture. Only 14.3H he is considered a pony in the Walking Horse world. He's my alpha-dominant horse, still wears a "No Fear" t-shirt and has never bucked, reared, kicked, bitten or otherwise made any sort of mistake in the 21 years we've been buds.

Duke is old enough that Midnight Sun is his great-grandsire; along with Wilson's Allen on his bottom.


16.1H TWH Rusty is Generator-bred and my best down and dirty trail horse. He is my most athletic of the three and thrives on dangerous cliff-hangar trails. He is not a horse for the faint of heart - if you're a timid rider, you lose. Rusty has been with me 13-1/2 yrs.


12 yr old TWH Joker is 15.2H and came to live with us in 2006. Both his parents were in their 20's when he was born, so he is only 5 or 6 generations away from Old Glory and Nell Dement. His sire is from the Chance line which had no Midnight Sun in it at one point in time.

This was Joker's first ride in 4 years but he went thru the field like we'd been riding every day.


Annnd horse #4 is my Arab who was 23 in this picture; he's now 25. Sorry, can't leave him out; I rescued him when he was seven. He is the best child-safe horse one could ask for. He is being ponied alongside Duke, who is in huff because his BFF won't trot faster.
 
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Too funny that you say that. Even though Duke does get mistaken for a gaited Morgan on occasion, I did have someone once ask me how I taught that Quarter Horse to gait - lollol He had to have gotten his build from his dam, whom I never saw. I was privileged to see his sire, Pride's Genious, who was around 16H and solid black:shock:

If your mare is a Walking Horse 14.1H should be considered a pony but, I honestly don't know if what I said is correct.

Someone I trail ride with, that also shows, told me Duke would be considered a pony if I were to ever show him. I just took them at their word and never pursued it:)
 
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Actually, I've never seen an Saddlebred that wasn't gaited. I've heard that sometimes they won't have the extra gaits, but I've just never seen one that didn't. Of course I've heard the same about all gaited breeds (that some of them don't have the extra gaits) Even my crosses have the Saddlebred gaits of their ASB parent.

It was the gaits that helped make Saddlebreds and Morgans the darlings fo the US Cav, since around the 1850's (although what became the Saddlebreds were just known as Saddler, Kentucky Saddler or Saddle Horse that far back). Many horse breeds met the Cav qualifications, but those two breeds tended to be the most prefered.

This is one of my Saddlebred/Frisian crosses. Her rack looks nice and should be an easy ride. Looking forward to it after I put her under the saddle next year.
 

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Saddlebred Mare

Here y'all go!! Three gated saddlebred mare. Her name is Shamrock's Double Image, Alex for short. Broke her out to be a great saddleseat horse!! Hope to make her a 10 and under horse :)
 

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these are all gaited horses I have had in the past.
Cricket - Grade Walker

Shelby - Spotted Saddle Pony (thats me trimming her) My first pony


Spirit - Spotted Saddle Pony - Shelby's foal

Rusty - Walker/Paint Cross Naturally gaited, like his mother (shelby) and Brother (Spirit.) Rusty was born gaiting

Fancy - walker? Saddlebred? We know she has walker in her, she flat walked but she might be mixed with saddlebred

Flower Bug - Paint/Walker? Mix she was the daughter of Fancy She would gait some when running with the other horses, but she was sold as a yearling.
 
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Hi, lovely horse...I recently acquired my first Mis. Foxtrotter, and I love, love, love her! OMG! She is a mover, and faster than many other gaited horses in the area. Plus she is 15 y/o, with awesome bloodline, and a proven mare, BUT,Im getting pressured by an excellent horsewoman who has a young, unproven standardbred stud to breed her next year with him. I am told I might get a speed-racking horse. Eaxctly what does that mean and why should I do this?? Anyone that can help, all information would be greatly appreciated.
 
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Honestly, I would flat out tell her no. I don't want to offend you, I obviously don't know her. Is she offering a free breeding? Kind of sounds like she is just trying to get a foal on the ground by her unproven stud. I SERIOUSLY doubt you would get a speed racker, Standardbreds only trot or pace, neither is really conducive to getting a speed racker IMO. Also, I doubt it could be registered. If you really feel the need to breed her, find a good Foxtrotter stud that has the qualities you want, at least that way you would have a registered foal with good bloodlines that is more likely to be bought if it's not what you want. People are basically giving horses away right now because they can't afford the hay and grain and breeders aren't breeding because people aren't buying. To me, there are way too many good horses out there looking for good homes at extremely reasonable prices to breed for a cross that may or may not be gaited and probably can't be registered. Jusy my opinion:)
 
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