Rio Gaiting and Cantering

My 5 1/2 year old palomino tennessee walking horse gelding (by Royal Ivory) doing the flatwalk, running walk and canter. Ridden bareback by my friend Adi (as you can tell, the girl knows how to ride!). Sorry about the video quality--will try again when the weather improves.

Category:

Pets & Animals

Tags:

• rio
• palomino
• tennessee
• walking
• horse
• gelding
• canter

[umagrrl]

i hate to ask such a lame question but do you cue the horse a different way to ask for the running walk and flat walk? or is it like tap once, tap twice?

[utahkimi]

@umagrrl Not a lame question. I'm not sure how other people do it, but I do it more like the difference between asking for a regular working trot and an extended trot--you keep the same frame but just ask for more. I also cue him verbally with the cue "walk up!" or "walk on!" just to back it up, although you can't really yell that in the middle of a class. :) Honestly--I just give him more leg to get him started and often lift my hands just a little bit more for some support.

[msheadshaker]

CUTE LITTLE HORSE

[utahkimi]

Thanks... except he's sort of ginormous for a TWH. He's 16 hands and I am often asked if he's half-draft. His other name is Bubba. :)

[landjwalk]

Very impressed, especially with the canter, so few TWH's canter anymore, let alone naturally.

[utahkimi]

And may I say--it ain't easy! Thankfully, I have a friend who gets them to canter, but it's just such an easy gait to lose on these gaited horses! Not like my QH and Friesian--they only do three things: walk, trot, canter. They don't have a bunch of gaits in between. :) But hey--we all like a challenge, yes?

[FinnsMam]

VERY cute, so nice to see a natural walker x

[oOLG4UsOo]

amazing... soo good!

[fancigal]

he has the perfect hind end, very low and engaged... it's just so engrained in him since day one of training that when they sent him to a trainer, the trainer just gave him back... His arched neck is not going to get straight again, unfortunately, the QH trainer trained him when he was still growing so now the muscles in his neck basically formed that way. Luckily when she takes him to all breed shows, they can barely tell a running walk from a fast pace. They dont know walkers!! hahaha

[landjwalk]

We bought a horse on pads from a local show stable where I worked for a short time and put him on kegs, it took us months to get a steady 4 beat walk out of him let alone a running walk out of him, that horse could pace standing still.

[landjwalk]

oh yes I know...I have had 1 out of about 10 that was easy to canter, the more square horses seem to be easier to canter than the pacier ones.