TAKE A PEEK AT

AN INTRODUCTION TO THE GAITED HORSE

TABLE OF CONTENTS

 BUYING AND OWNING THE GAITED HORSE

• The Soft-Gaited Horse • Out to Buy A Soft-Gaited Horse • Buy A Baby • Bringing Up Baby • • A Case of Economics • Great Expectations • The Fear Factor • Out Of State Purchase • •Why Clinics? • Temperament VS Personality • Choosing A Stallion • If It's Broke, Fix It •   •Are We Asking The Right Questions? • Conditioning Our Gaited Buddy • It Doesn't Have To Be A Bad Horse (to be the wrong horse) • Passages • Spay My Mare? •

GAITS AND GAITING

• What is A Four Beat Gait • How the Gaited Horse Moves • Back To Basics • The Peruvian Horse • What Is Gaiting? • More Soft Gaits • Developing The 4-Beat Gait • Our Friend the Canter • Shall We Dance? •

RIDING THE GAITED HORSE

• We Are All Trainers • What Our Horses Can Do For Us • Celebrating Autumn • Year End Joy • Ride With A Purpose • Keeping In Shape Pays Off • Easy To Ride or Easy On The Rider • Winterize Your Riding • Are You Ready To Ride? • It Takes A Year • Joys Of The Trail • Variety Is The Spice • To Show Or Not To Show • Horses Are Prey • The Right Horse • Yellow

    GROOMING AND TACKING

• Grooming For Show • Tack: Athletic Equipment • Tack: clothes That Make The Horse • Is There One Right Saddle? • Caring For Your Saddle • Shoeing The Gaited Horse • Australian Stock Saddles •

A LOOK AT SOME SOFT-GAITED BREEDS

• In Support Of The Registries • Missouri Fox Trotter • Spotted Saddle Horse •Tennessee Walker • Kentucky Mountain Saddle Horse • Rocky Mountain Horse • Paso Fino •Racking Horse • Icelandic • Walkaloosa • Bashkir Curly • Mountain Pleasure Horse • Horses of Osborn Gap • McCurdy Plantation Horse • Mangalarga Marchador • Spanish Gaited Pony • Tiger Registry • Florida Cracker • Spanish Mustangs of Sulphur Creek • Gaited Morgans • Colonial Spanish Mustang • Part Walking Horse Registry • Tiger Horse Association • Sorraia -the foundation horse • Spotted Mountain Horse • Kentucky Natural Gaited • Peruvian Paso • American Gaited Mountain Horse •