JR’s Journal – Dealing with the Pace
JR, the hard-wired to fox trot horse, starting pacing about my eighth ride. He was started by Jennifer Vaught and got a solid flat foot walk, a beautiful fox trot and a lovely canter with her. After my eighth ride on him, he did the pace walk, the regular pace and we lost our nice smooth canter. When JR cantered, every leg was going to the beat of a different drummer. Rough? I was flying out of the saddle at every beat. Why did he start pacing soon after…