Dear Daisy Dog: I am a horse person, and I also have a dog. I notice that when my dog canters, he does a cross canter; in other words, one front leg leads, while the opposite hind leg leads. A horse’s ...

To answer this question, our team went all the way to Iceland to speak with Sonja Noack, the owner of Hestasnilld Riding School in Mosfellsbær, Iceland! She showed us all sorts of different gaits that ...

How a horse moves is called its gait, but what is a gait? The way a horse moves is called its gait. Horses have four basic gaits and there is a good reason why horse owners pay attention to the ...

Icelandic horses are a unique and beautiful horse breed native to Iceland, the land of ice and fire. A source of national pride for Icelanders, these four-legged creatures are known for their slight ...

From the Faroe Pony to the Spanish Mustang, fewer animals have played such a central role in human history as the horse. New research in Animal Genetics reveals that a horse's gait, an attribute ...