Quoting pinkpony1982:

The indian shuffle, was indeed, a gait of earlier appaloosas:)

The indian shuffle, was indeed, a gait of earlier appaloosas:)

Quoting Woodroe_Call:

Quoting: Originally posted by 4beatgirl The mixing of the draft makes sense. My friends horses are big in body and bone. Is the Indian Shuffle done by the Tiger Horse or by other breeds?

As far as I know that is a referance unique to the Palouse and Leopard is the coloring of a Appy that doesn't have the full blanket the and is white with spots slightly showing up over the horse unlike the one in Stars picture. Not all horses will have the draft largness I suppose the smaller oned are what the consider pure with blooslines going back 5 generations...

That is the Chief Joseph Trailride and they only ride small small sections of it each yeat. I have an Nez Perce ladys e-mail and number if you are intrested and would like to take the ride some year she has been involved for many years.

If you tell the truth have one foot in the stirrup ! ! !

Quoting Woodroe_Call:

Quoting: Originally posted by 4beatgirl A friend of mine breeds Appaloosa Sport Horses. When I switched to gaited horses I revealed to her some research that lead me to believe that the Nez Perez Apps where gaited. Does anyone have any info they would like to share on this?

Hay 4beatgirl,

It's known as the Indian Shuffle the timing isn't even making it a broken four beat gait but it is really smooth on the horse and rider that's why they are called a hundred mile a day horse. The Spanish abandon some spotted horses in Mexico (Spanish Jennet) and they migrated north. When Lewis and Clark passed through the Nez Perce in 1806 he recorded they had the largest horse herds on the continent. The original name was Palouse Horse and evolved to Appaloosa.

The white horse in one of my pictures Apache is a Leopard Appaloosa. He was huge and I have always thought like Star mentioned he had a bit of draft. Their calmness, stamina and go make for a really great mountain horse he was surefooted as a mountain goat and you needed something like that on the Continental Divide. Down on the flat land he was as good as any quarter horse, I could have him dong 40 miles an hour and bring him up and turn him on a dime and he never had a bit in his mouth, just the bridle.

He was 37 when he went on and never really showed it.

We had one hell of a good time and I miss him...

If you tell the truth have one foot in the stirrup ! ! !

Quoting starhorse:

Hi, 4beat. I had not heard about this, but who knows. The Nez Perez Appalooas where incredible! Did you know they led the Calvary all the way up through Canada before they were finally captured? The Calvary changed to fresh mounts many times, and could not keep up with their "pallosa" ponies...Needless to say, this really upset our Calvary

As a result the government passed a law that all the Nez Perez Appaloosas (they had another name then. I forgot..) had to be crossed with draft horses, maybe mules also... This was an actual law! So very few remained pure after this law was enacted.

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Hi, 4beat. I had not heard about this, but who knows. The Nez Perez Appalooas where incredible! Did you know they led the Calvary all the way up through Canada before they were finally captured? The Calvary changed to fresh mounts many times, and could not keep up with their "pallosa" ponies...Needless to say, this really upset our Calvary

As a result the government passed a law that all the Nez Perez Appaloosas (they had another name then. I forgot..) had to be crossed with draft horses, maybe mules also... This was an actual law! So very few remained pure after this law was enacted.

Looks like you just upgraded to a star. Congratulations! Now we are going to get into more trouble here...