American Saddlebred horse at the Rack - Slow Motion

Watch the footfall pattern of an American Saddlebred horse at the rack. Learn more at www.american-saddlebred.com!

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Pets & Animals

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• saddlebred
• rack
• gait
• saddleseat
• horse
• equestrian

[Jailbirdx]

It's not unnatural, saddlebreds are capable of racking from the time they're born. That isn't animal cruely, breeding in a gait that is much more smooth and efficient than a trot or a canter.

[esbeard]

You are confusing the Tennessee Walking horse with the American saddlebred> Saddlebreds cannot trot and they are a tritting breed if they are sore. A gaited horse must be able to do all five gaits and Must be sound to do so. Most five gaited horses caryy little weight and the shoes are designed to accept concussion of the fast past gaits. Please get your facts striaght before being critical.

[thesaddlebredchick]

Haha racking is NATURAL! Dam right i have a 17 year old saddlebred. Never racked before when he was older and he just racks when i ask him little! So proven fact saddlebeds can NATURALLLY rack!

[MsHillDweller]

The second horse shown in this video is one of the greatest saddlebreds who ever lived. She had an amusing and highly appropriate name: My-My. I saw her many times. There have been two horses who won the World Championship Five Gaited Stake six years in a row: Wing Commander in the fifties and My-My in the sixties.

[Caterpii]

@kds3491 Oh, I see it now! :D

[kds3491]

@Caterpii Nope. A trot is a 2 beat diagonal gait in which the front left and rear right leg move forward simultaneously and vice versa. The slow gait and rack are 4 beat lateral gaits. This means that the right front and rear legs move forward in tandem as do the left front and rear. In a true rack,only one foot is ever on the ground at any time, hence the "4-beat" gait. Any horse who moves this way, but the left or right pair of feet are on the ground simultaneously is pacing, not racking.

[Caterpii]

Is racking same thing as trotting but without the bounciness? O:

[buckbaby44]

@SmokeyAndJessi um those comment were from 3 years ago....i was immature sorry?

[SmokeyAndJessi]

@esbeard No, they do rack from the time they are born (IF GAITED). Though, not all saddlebreds are gaited. It depends on the breeding and what their sire/dam could do.

[SmokeyAndJessi]

@buckbaby44 2nd? Apparently you aren't the best if someone beat you, so stop acting like you are.

[userunavailable3095]

@userunavailable3095 Basically its just a little jiggle-jiggle motion and hang on for dear life as the wind rushes by. If you watch Icelandic ponies at this gait, they do it on bare ice with the snow swept off in competition. You can do this gait on paved roads, and the horse won't fall, even downhill. I've known people put in a thirty mile trail ride on a good racking horse, and the horse just has a roll and goes to grazing when they get off, and the rider can still walk.

[userunavailable3095]

@Love2RideArabs There is a little bit of a vibration to it, and a little side to side motion, but mostly is is just lay-you-back-in-the-saddle fast. It is absolutely thrilling to ride. It is a very efficient and sure footed gait, expending very little energy for the speed. There is no suspension phase to the gait: no time when all four feet are off the ground. So a good horse can do it for miles, although not at full speed. They don't waste energy moving upward like a trot or canter.