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Spinoff - do TWH still have the same confirmation as Merry Go Boy and Midnight Sun?

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    #21
    Originally posted by rabicon View Post
    And here is our beautiful boy and he is just a good ole trail horse despite his amazing lines

    http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fb...0260134&type=3
    Wow, he's a knockout!

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    • #22
      Thank you. He's probably one of the prettiest ones here but don't tell the others that lol. He was extremely abused before we got him as a 7 year old 7 years ago. His bloodlines are amazing with big licks and world champs all down so we believe someone tried to do that to him in not the nicest way. He hates arenas and still does, terrified of shots and still is, hates cowboy hats but has gotten better, couldn't use leg for years or he'd frak out, ask him to park out is not an option he is terrified. Took us years to be able to touch him or catch him with a lead rope in our hand. He had a lot more issues than this even but he has come a long ways and loves just heading out on the trail.
      Horses aren't our whole life, but makes our life whole

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      • #23
        You bet! good walking horses are all over the place, we have one in our barn! Huge understride, nice big mare, a little less plain in the face than some of the old timers. You will see lots of nice walking horses at dog field trials too!

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        • #24
          I know Merry Go Boy was supposed to be the epitrmy of a conformational model but did anyone else notice his knees on this page >?

          http://www.walkerswest.com/Champs/MerryGoBoy2.htm

          How can knees like that be the ideal?
          "I would not beleive her if her tongue came notorized"

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          • #25
            Walkerswest is a treasure trove of historical info and pics for walking horses. the first horse to wear a pad and a band was in 1956---I believe it was Merry Go Boy. They did not start with the current huge build up until the 1070's.

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            • #26
              Those two stallions are just beautiful. I remember fifty years ago when I was growing up, the horses were called Plantation Walking Horses, and my family had some for the plantation managers to ride around the fields daily checking on the crops. I also remember back in the fifties that one of the features of the TWH was "the rocking horse canter." I also remember that in the 1960s soring and just plain horse abuse in the TWH (and possibly saddlebreds, but I'm sure of the TWH) triggered the passage of the Animal Welfare Act.

              Fast forward to eight years ago when I attended a horse show with Big Lick walkers and talked to some of the trainers and owners. Apparently they don't even canter any more; only the pleasure walkers do that. The show ring--or the one at the Germantown Charity Horse Show--had only two gaits for most of the Big Lick walkers. Apparently it's too hard for the horses to canter if they are walking on the equivalent of human stiletto heels--and or whatever else is used to make the Running Walk the unnatural gait it is.

              I personally think it's a bit bizarre to have a whole group of top show horses that don't canter when their Canter was one of the things that made the Walker the Walker.
              "I'm a lumberjack, and I'm okay."
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              • #27
                Correct we've had 2 walkers that we had to teach to canter. My husband has had a spinal fusion so trotting Is to hard on him so he went to twh to trail ride. Wed ride with my reg gait horses and when I canter or gallop they'd just try to gait faster and go into this horrible uncomfortable thing of a gait. It took them a few times before they figured out they could actually do it. It wasn't pretty at first either lol. But once they figured their feet out its such a nice easy canter to ride
                Horses aren't our whole life, but makes our life whole

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                • #28
                  The padded horses do indeed canter.

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                  • #29
                    They do canter padded horses. Some classes do not include a canter...but yes...they canter padded horses.
                    Lynnwood- look more closely- he is an old arthritic horse in some of those photos. His knees were fine in his youth.

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                    • #30
                      Never seen a stacked horse canter. I have seen them rear and flop.
                      from sunridge1:Go get 'em Roy! Stupid clown shoe nailing, acid pouring bast@rds.it is going to be good until the last drop!Eleneswell, the open trail begged to be used. D Taylor

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                      • #31
                        Honors has a nice canter for a padded horse.

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