I rode Cisco a couple days ago and encountered the “hard trot”. \u00a0We were doing a fast turn and run exercise and we spun into a hard trot. \u00a0Us gaited horse people call the trot, a hard trot…maybe to distinguish it from the fox trot. \u00a0But we also like to emphasize the hard part of it. \u00a0When you are not used to “bounce”, bounce is a shock to our bones. \u00a0It’s the suspension that we are not used to. \u00a0I don’t believe Lucky Star has ever hard trotted. \u00a0He paced once and I was bounced. \u00a0I rode Nova before Lucky Star and never experienced bounce. \u00a0JR used to pace, and then hard trotted on his way to refine the fox trot. \u00a0I do remember Velvet hard trotting. \u00a0When I rode Velvet, I didn’t understand how to turn her more “square diagonal” fox trot into a smoother less square diagonal fox trot. \u00a0When Velvet was allowed to go fast in the trot gait, I bounced. \u00a0Bouncing for a full figured woman is “upsetting for the user.<\/p>\n
Cisco’s hard trot brought me back to the Velvet hard trot days. \u00a0The difference is that Cisco’s trot seemed to be much longer. \u00a0I had to relearn how to post and it seemed like I went up and down in the post every 5-10 minutes…that’s how long his reach is. \u00a0I am impressed. \u00a0He can stretch out those long legs!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I rode Cisco a couple days ago and encountered the “hard trot”. \u00a0We were doing a fast turn and run exercise and we spun into a hard trot. \u00a0Us gaited horse people call the trot, a hard trot…maybe to distinguish it from the fox trot. \u00a0But we also like to emphasize the hard part of it. \u00a0When you are not used to “bounce”, bounce is a shock to our bones. \u00a0It’s the suspension that we are not used to. \u00a0I don’t believe Lucky Star has ever hard trotted. \u00a0He paced…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[106,125],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cisco","category-missouri-fox-trotter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3063"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3064,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3063\/revisions\/3064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}