Yes! I Proposed And She Said Yes!
No no nothing like that. I'm a happilyl married man already, but if you got the "congrats" ready to go, by all means send them to me. This too merits some Yays.
The First Lady of gaited horses
I recently visited a blog "Naturally Gaited. Com", owned by Jennifer Klitzke. She is like the current First Lady of the gaited horse** world. Her blog has a huge following.
A controversial First Lady
However Jennifer's also controversial, because of her training methods, which include trotting the horse. To some "smooth riders", the very idea of trotting a smooth-gaited horse is anathema. They changed from ordinary horses, with their jarring trot, to the smoother rides and are now happily gliding along on a horse limo, with not a bump in the saddle.
Telling them that they should maintain the Trot in their horses makes them deeply uncomfortable, just thinking about it. So they reject the whole idea as crazy.
Great minds think alike lol
I too strongly advocate the usefulness of trotting the Gaited Horse, and commented that on her blog. Jennifer was overjoyed to find another gaited-horse-trainer, who shared her outlook. We exchanged a couple of emails and she read some of my articles on my site, greatergaiter.com
Officially a Guest Blogger
I suggested we guest blog on each other's sites and she jumped on the idea so I'm now officially a Guest Blogger. Lol. Yes yes, thank you folks, but don't throw me flowers. Throw me $ bills instead, folks!
If I can do it, I'm shy, so can you! Just follow a blogger comment approvingly and make friends. Then when you feel the time is right just toss it out there. The worst you will get is a polite no thanks.
** a gaited horse is a horse with an extra (smooth) gait, apart from the usual walk and trot and canter. **
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That's awesome!
I don't specifically train gaited horses, but I have trained one in the past and I can say I found his trot way smoother than his paso ilano (yeah, I got him to trot. I have no idea how. Good horse though).
Technically I had a gaited clyde quarter horse x too. One comment I got was "She's like riding a cloud!" High knee action, and rolled her hips through the gaits.
The gaitedness likely came from the QH side. Lots of gaited blood in them I hear. Was that a Peruvian Paso you trained? Yeah the Pasos often present a super smooth trot altho most never ride it. Seems to be like a taboo among Paso trainers.
I have never ridden a comfortable QH, lol. They tend to drag their feet, she had the Clydesdale high-knee action. What bloodlines QH's have depends on their history, though in my area they are mostly Draft (cow-sense and work ethic), Mustang (gaited-ish lines), and Thoroughbred. Curly horses specifically have more gaited blood through chosen bloodlines.
The Clydesdales are a more sporty when given the chance. She looked like a mini Budweiser.
It was a Peruvian Paso, yes. I forgot what he was when I was commenting. Haha.
I bow to your superior knowledge of quarters and Clydesdales. I had a PP stallion, Soñador (the Dreamer) on training for a couple months when I lived in Nicaragua.
His Paso Llano was a dream, as smooth as any Icelandic, and his trot was to die for. Fully PRE class! Sadly it turned out he had a fractured vertebrae, so he had to be put out to pasture for a year.
Thanks Loes. Yeah I went for the big one. No really Jennifer is so nice and kind I just popped the question. Its easy to find common ground, when you share an interest in common.
Hej Goran! Congrats on your success with Jennifer. Wishing you continued success with your venture.
Thanks Chris. I feel I'm well on my way already. The gaited horse world is relatively small and news travel fast lol.
Thanks David. With all the support and kindness here on WA the journey is so much smoother than struggling on your own.
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Great Goran, wishing you more progress and blessings. Edi
Thank you Edi and same to you.