Gait Spectrum - Walk to Running walk - Pace to Saddle Gait - Trot to Foxtrot 

I was so excited watching your clip. I have two fox trotters and I am learning all about the gaits. You explained it so well. I have watched head down and now training this.. Just started but what an improvement. Can't believe it. Thanks Jo from new Zealand

This is a very informative and helpful video. Great gait explanations and comparisons; slow motion is always enormously valuable to me. Super cool to see the correct flat and running walks during gaited dressage, too! As always, thanks for making and posting, Ivy!

Thank you. Very enlightening. I’m new to gaited horses, just got my first TWH.

The twenty fiith was my birthday and im just viewing this today. Excellent work for this videeo Ivy so thankyou ! I have a 5 year od M.F.T that wants to speed up at all gaits so your great knowledge and great commen sense is so appreciated

I don't have a gait but I like your video that you do

Thank you for this video! I’ve hoped to see one like this for some time!

Thank you so much for all your videos!!! My Montana Traveler gaited mare is now beginning to gait beautifully! You make everything so simple, as it should be! 💞

Very helpful! Thank you very much for sharing!

With this white horse, approx mid video, working on head down in the flat walk and running walk, you talk a little about how when he starts raising his head and pace that it’s gets more bouncy -and I noticed your back got stiff in those pacing steps and then your back gets looser again and seat gets deeper once it goes back into a 4 beat gait. Can you please address this more and talk about what happens to the rider when the horse has uneven gaits and goes from pacing to running walk or a saddle gait and back to pace repeatedly? I’m trying to learn to get head down on my TWH gelding so I need a reference of a good video or two for that as well. We don’t have any gaited trainers nearby and my WTC instructor gets on me as soon as my back stiffens when my horse starts to pace. He usually raises his head and goes into a pace when I speed him up a little. I can get him to take a few smooth 4 beat steps, but he goes back to pace off and on. One problem we have is She thinks I’m making my horse begin to pace when I do this and doesn’t realize that it is his bouncy pacing steps that are causing me to stiffen and bounce. lol My registered TWH gelding did a beautiful 4 beat running walk before I bought him but it’s gone now. He just turned 3 and has not been ridden a lot in the past year since I got him, so he is weak in his gaiting. There are a few reasons for this. He’s had recurrent right rear abscess hoof issues on and off, I had his front shoes taken off because I wasn’t riding him much and wanted to let him grow up more and get his feet healthy first, and we also both have had confidence issues and I didn’t want to make the behavior issues worse on my own till I could get with an instructor to help work that out.

Thank you for this video!

Love your videos!! All I need now is a TWH to try all this great info!!

Awesome dear with sensitivity Horse riding 🐴

hmmm i have learned a lot about gaited horses.

This was extremely helpful since I am a visual learner AND you used laymen's english, LOL. I have alot to learn,,, got a new horse last March a 6 yr old TWH that has a very smooth gait, if you can get him in it and keep him in it. I've lots to learn,, my SSH was much easier, he just,, did it!

Hi from Enumclaw, WA. I ride a chunky 14 hand 2 inch Missouri foxtrotter. Is a fox walk similar to what is demonstrated as Saddle Gait? My mare is smooth, fast, front low reach, some head nod, walking with energy, not stepping pace. Missouri Travelor E sir and dam breeding. Yes glow in dark red. Hip high, big overstride.

Novice question. Not a horse owner. If a gaited horse is born in the wild and has no human interaction or training, what gait would they have? What is the smoothest gaited horse breed?

can you tell me the name of the saddle on the horse with the red bitless bridle

Watching this I understood for the first time in my life what it means that a gait is more lateral or more diagonal. I feel dumb now because it is not that complicated... Thanks for the awesome video!!! I also have question: is collection even possible for gaited horses? I saw your video about wrong posture in gaited horses (with the silouhettes), but it left me with questions. Many voices say that it is a lot harder for gaited horses to collect themselvees and only possible to a minimal degree, if they are even allowed to try and not ridden with a hollow back. Now the horses doing the Flat Walk and and the Running Walk in the video I saw stepping under their belly quite a bit, the croup moving downwards and the withers being higher, which is a sign for collection because the horse is taking on more weight on their back legs, right? It is not really "bending their hox" though-another ting I was taught to be a sign- so is it or is ot not collection? Last question: Could I train my horse to do a saddle gait and a trot depending on what I want them to do at the time? For example if my horse cant do a 4 beat gait perfectly yet and I still wand to keep them in shape? Thank you again for dion your videos, please keep it up!!! Stay healthy!!!!

What can I do to get my horse to lift his front legs higher during a racking gate?

Hi, I have a standardbred, who is a pacer. I would like him to gait. Are they able to, as I only ever hear about them pacing.

What is the difference between a Stepping Pace and a Saddle Gait? They look so similar in slow motion. I did a slow motion video of my gelding and I'm pretty sure he is doing a saddle gait but after watching your video, I'm not so sure, now

Could you please tell me where you will be doing courses in Alberta 2024???😊❤

I still dont understand difference between fox trot and running walk is it just how far the hind legs move forward

The saddle Rack looks so similar to the Stepping Pace. Is the difference in the head position that makes them different?

Can you talk about the paso fino gaits

Ivy - where does a singlefoot fall in this spectrum?

How do you encourage head down?

How is the pace better for showing?

Thank You very much for this video!