Flatwalk- Papa's Royal Delight- Tennessee Walking Horse

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Uploaded by on Feb 5, 2007

Papa's Royal Delight: naturally gaited barefoot stallion exhibits the true foundation gaits of the natural walking horse. Multi-national Grand Champion, standing at Howe They Walk Farm, Greenwood, Missouri www.howetheywalk.com

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  • Beautiful horse, but why is the rider pushing so much with her seat? The horse would look more smooth if the rider would sit still.

  • When you have a horse with huge stride that is working the walk with animation and a neutral topline, there is more front-to-back movement... watch the saddle. This is not the rider "pushing" but moving "with" the horse's natural movement. The front-to-back movement is what allows the headnod to drive the backend stride. Bigger stride + bigger headnod = more front-to-back flow.

  • Is he for sale?

  • No, but you can breed to him! Go to howetheywalk. com

  • That isnt a "flat walk"..It is a exagerated "dog walk". Nonetheless it is impressive.

  • A 'dog walk' is a lower energy, 4 beat walk with lowered head and stretching into the bit; a.k.a. trail walk. A flatwalk is a "walk with purpose"; a higher energy "marchy" walk that averages 3-5 mph as you see this horse doing. Many show circuits erroneously have horses' runwalking when the flatwalk is called, and then lose form and headshake (morphing to a racky, step-pace) at the runwalk as they try to give more speed. A runwalk is NOT a speed gait, but a "walking" gait at 9-10 mph.

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  • @chollacat That movemet makes the judges like your horse even more.

  • Wow i have never seen a head nod like this... i would think he would get dizzy lol.

  • He's just fantastic!

  • I dont think I have seen such an exaggerated head nod

  • It comes with such a gait... instead of the horse moving you from side to side like another other breed's, it moves you from front to back, almost forcing your pelvis to move in such a exaggerated way, kinda like a donkey of a mule would.

  • love the head shake and gait on this horse.

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