[estrogen]

I have a gaited horse and LOVE the running walk. My advanced age needs the smooth ride. Mine is a Rocky Mt. gelding that has the sweetest disposition. My husband had a TWH and that horse was NUTS. Took off all the time. Had to sell him to a park ranger. My horse is named Waylon and he's 3 yrs.old.

[cowboyway]

Morning all. You can blame GW for your cold, HairDog. (sarcasm)

About them gaited horses. I've been on a few trail rides with people riding walking/racking/gaited horses and where groups of walking/racking/gaited horse riders were on the same trails.

First, as a general rule, walking/racking/gaited horses don't mix well with quarter horses. People on the gaited horses want to be in that rack and its either a fast trot or a slow lope for the quarter horse. Either way, it can make for an unpleasant ride.

Second, I've been riding at places that were popular with the walking/racking/gaited crowd. It was kinda like the story about the tortoise and the hare. These guys would come roaring up behind us, literally run us off the road and tear off past us. A few minutes later, we would amble on by while they were resting their nags, just to repeat the whole thing all over again. We discovered that if we ventured off to the remote trails, we wouldn't see a single walking/racking/gaited horse. They seemed to prefer wide, easy roads to backwoods, single file trails.

[Duchess47]

Oh, post some pictures when you can. I was reading about the Rocky Mountain horses awhile back but I don't believe I have ever seen one.