Tennessee Walking Horse Pacing

Rocky pacing again... any help in making him walk would be very nice!!^^

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Pets & Animals

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• Tennessee
• Walking
• Horse
• pace

[FirstClassSkeptic]

Are you sure this is a TWH? Maybe it's a Standardbred. Have you ever gotten him to walk like a TWH?

Harness him to a race bike and see if he'll do a mile in less than two and a half minutes.

[boiselle]

@FirstClassSkeptic Yes he is a TWH, it says so in his certificate :) after a lot of work I got him to walk very nicely and I'm very happy with him now! Harnessing him to a race bike is supposed to show me that he's a TWH or am I understanding this wrong?

[NWHAhorserider333]

Lower your hands a little bit. I have the same problem with my horse sometimes. So, I usually canter her because that is the opposite of a pace. I believe that should probably work with your horse, since it worked with mine and she is a multiple national championship winner.

[boiselle]

@NWHAhorserider333 a lot of people also told me to get him to trot a lot, because that would get the stiffness in his back out. I lunged him a lot, since that's the only time when he would trot (without a rider), I also walked him uphill a lot of times to build the muscles in his back and did a lot of circling and stuff like that! everyday at least an hour helped him a lot and got him in a very smooth walk! I don't have him anymore though, cause I'm in the usa now! but thank you! where are you?

[icehorses]

I added your videos to the gaited-horse blog so that we can get suggestions to improve his gait, from the subscribers of the YahooGroups gaitedhorse list.

[boiselle]

wow, thanks a lot!! Do you think you can ask them how to improve his walk? because they just said what gait it is!^^

thx again^^

[GudiniLove]

Das ist kein Pass sondern Schweinepass

[nanakla]

@FirstClassSkeptic Both standardbreds and TWHs can pace. :)All gaited horses might pace. Making them softer, riding a bit of dressage (no focus on headset nd such, but to move the horses body, bending and flexing) usully helps. When I gait my standardbred I se my leg and weight to move his hind end a bit if he starts pacing, that might help with this horse too. Half halts and changing tempos can also help.

[Breyerhorserider]

Get him to stand still, then take a step, then stand still again... eventually your twh should get the message.

[Hagunsei1]

My guy tries to do this too, esp. when tense. The "pacey" ones are capable of producing better-quality "real" gaits than the "trotty" ones. Slow him down, relax him, get him nodding, give him a little nice light-traction contact, then pelvic-tilt forward and ask him to ease it up a notch. That should do it! Practice makes perfect, but if you still have trouble, try trimming him so his hind feet are a little shorter and his front toes a little longer; changes the timing a bit!

[NWHAhorserider333]

I live in South Carolina. I show with Natioanl Walking Horse Association. Look it up on nwha.com. I am glad your horse finally got better. What you did are really good solutions to your problem.

[RackOn344]

Slow him down. Take him from the walk and ever so slightly speed up. Speeding up on hills will make the process go faster. The most important thing is to go slow though.

Also pacing is a sign of tension in the back. Get him to relax his top line by lowering his head.

Hope that helps!