studebaker
Posted : 5/30/2017 6:57:32 AM
Ah, that photo is in my Picasa account and Google has locked it. Why they bought the company only to lock out all the customers escapes my understanding. So I am stuck with PhotoBucket and they have a tendency of so monopolizing the memory on my computer I lose everything typed in every other session. Like just happened here. To solve the problem, Photobucket wants money and are holding my pictures hostage to get it. Gotta love it when the supposedly legit companies on the net start behaving like the crooks.
That was three or four years ago and as I remember (my memory is a dangerous gamble) Socks kept going into some kind of gait that felt like single-foot or possibly a Rack. Anyway, here is the picture I think you might be remembering:
He didn't do this for more than a hundred feet or so, but it was very smooth and I couldn't have posted if I wanted to because there was no movement to do so. No idea how to queue him for this. Not in my training tool Bag, as it were. Socks trot, when he's moving closer to collection is a nice square two-beat trot. However it is also a very powerful trot because of how high his action is. Really throws you up for the posting. Don't know that I could sit it. This is his normal gait on the high end of the cycle:
Hackneys move like their feet are on a wheel. He will reach out just as far as he does up. The Dressage people go nutz when they see him.
Then of course Paula taught him how to smile for the camera:
He learned that silly trick in just a day or so. all you have to do is hold up a camera and tell him to smile, and he does! So if he's that smart I'm sure Socks could be taught to either single-foot or Rack. Silly boy. Love him to pieces and wish I had the resources to bring out his full potential. All the same I'm very happy with him as just a friend and companion.