Posts Tagged ‘gait’


Hoof Cadence: Lope

October 13, 2016
Jolyn Young

In the last two installments of this series, we discussed the hoof cadence of the walk and trot. The lope is a different breed of cat altogether from the other two gaits; it’s a three-beat gait with two split-seconds when only one foot is on the ground, and another split-second when none of the horse’s […]