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: Elizabeth Barrette (ysabetwordsmith) wrote,
2012-11-21 00:18:00

Elizabeth Barrette
ysabetwordsmith
2012-11-21 00:18:00

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Science News

One gene controls extra gaits in horses.

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November 21 2012, 07:19:25 UTC 8 years ago

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Over here, that gait is called the "rack", and as noted in the article, Tennessee Walking Horses are bred for it. Have a look here at a racking horse -- if you watch that right after the video on the article, the similarity in both the movements and the sound pattern of the hooves is very clear.

I had not realized that natural pacers had a genetic relationship to this! One of my fondest early-adolescent memories was finding that one of the horses at the livery stable where I was taking riding lessons was a natural pacer. It's a very smooth gait to ride, a side-to-side rolling motion rather than the rough up-and-down bounce of the trot.