Beautiful. I had the pleasure of driving one just like this in a show for a friend many years ago. Fond memories. He was a wonderful pony and I would have loved to have had him for myself.
That horse just knows there are LEGOs under that snow....I’m going to walk like that when I have to walk to the kitchen for a glass of milk and have to get through the LEGO war zone that is my tv room lol
I Love hackneys, they are sooo full of personality. I love their bright social personalities, they are like the most dog like of the equines when it comes to human friendly. Always full of expression, they can't help themselves.
He does seem to have pads though. Bell boots don’t look like that, they cover the hoof whereas here you can clearly see the hoof AND something underneath. And clearly is front body is higher than his loins. Show hackneys are sometimes padded a little... and the practice of any sort of padding on any horse should be banned.
@@millerfamilymayhem389 No he's right. Horses need friends (mules are half horse half donkey, btw), but if they're working or in mild turnout like this, they can be away from other horses for a while. I'm sure he has turnout with friends.
Zithao SoD / Plume de glace LGDC not really by what I have been told, they are not really used for riding as they are fairly small and their gait has a lot of jerky up and down movement (by what I have been told who owned one). However their gait is very good for harness work because their gait is very smooth horizontally so the ride is very smooth but quick in a cart or carriage.
Silver Scale Productions are they are prone ti eventually develop front leg joints problems due to this exaggerated forward leg movement and placement of the hooves quite in front of the body? And, this horse exhibits no signs of collection whatsoever which means thr front legs do more work than they could have if the rear legs had worked more in collection.
Aktan Akhmetov not that I have ever heard about, if anything they seem to have very good joint health at a fairly old age if they are not pushed too hard when they are younger the same as most other horses. They do have a more normal trot as well, this level is essentially the same as a canter in most other breeds and usually if they go faster than this gait they go pretty much straight to galloping. This one is probably going straight to this because it's happy like when a lot of horses will canter around in the pasture.
It is just a breed thing, a few other trotter breeds have a similar gait but not nearly as natural or pronounced as a Hackneys... and it is entirely natural, practically newborn foals will trot like this. Trotters are different because they will very rarely ever go into a canter or gallop, I think some actually physically cannot though I am not entirely sure about that.
I personally feel that they raise their legs so high to avoid tripping on their own legs if that makes any sense. Because near the end when he was trotting slower he didn't pick them up as high but the faster he trots the higher he picks up his legs, i guess so he has a longer stride instead of many short ones. Im not sure that's just what would make sense to me.
Elliot Bear, The natural angles of the bones in the horse's shoulders and hindquarters, the elasticity of the joints, and muscle development are all factors in creating action in a trot. Good breeding takes care of the angles, good care and diet creates elasticity, and solid physical training, sometimes even including weight lifting, builds the muscle.
If he was soared, he'd be limping in a stall not zooming around a pasture. Those are bells boots, not stacks. Hackney's do not wear stack shoes and they are never soared. Do not confuse Hackney's, Saddlebred's, National Show horses or any other saddleseat or harness horse breeds to what only happens to Tennessee Walkers in Big Lick shows.
Here's a newborn Hackney lifting his knees like that with no human interference. It's just how this breed moves. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-JlLzudfCkBE.html
Pip R Look at any stopped image from this video, he is wearing bell boots, plain, normal bell boots in front and looks barefoot behind. Hackneys have been bred to get the knee and hock action. A well bred hackney doesn't need stacked shoes, they're born with it.
Everybody makes such a huge stink about any sort of pads on the feet of Hackneys and Saddlebreds. Like it is abuse and torture they have them put on. Pull up any videos on YT of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers dancing in movies. "Cheek to Cheek", "Swing Time", "Waltz in Swing Time", "The Piccolino Dance", "Making Love", take your pick. Fred is decked out in flat dancing shoes or tap shoes. But Ginger? Hell, Ginger is dancing in pumps or high heels in every dance number, not only doing the same routine as Astaire, but doing a lot of it backwards as well! Her feet are pitched forward all the time at a much steeper slope than the pads put on this Hackney, but she zipped right along. I am more the sort to wear athletic shoes with thick, heavily padded soles to them, the heels usually higher than the front. No problems from them. So stop with the PETA drivel. Clearly if the shoeing on this pony was a physical problem for him he'd show discomfort. And he clearly doesn't do that.
Pip R they are just bell boots...probably to help protect his underside from his feet or stepping to far forward in the back and catching himself. He s fine.
