Group+4a+-+Icelandic+horses

media type="youtube" key="SBtFt-vMNMw" height="344" width="425" At the beginning I want to emphasize the small hardy horse, the Icelandic horse. This horse has developed form the difficult living conditions, and that's one of the reasons why it has been developed as a hardy horse. The Icelandic horse was moved by the Norwegians from the West Country and northern Norway in the year 874. So it’s true that Icelandic horse is descended from Norwegian horse breeds, but when the Island was isolated from Europe in about 1200, the breed has remained pure. This was much because they wanted to avoid disease and that the race should remain pure. So competition horses who travels on the European and World Championships may never return. But back to the horse, it’s very small and strong and it can carry all kinds of color spots. The Icelandic horse is famous for reaching a high living age. Many would be rid able up to 30 years. This is a very special horse because of his 5 gates (Walk, trot, canter, tølt and pace). Normal horses only got 3 gates (walk, trot and canter) but not every Icelandic horse can walk all these 5. We separate them into two groups. 4-goes and 5-goes. This means that the 4- goes only got walk, trot, canter and tølt, but the 5-goes got all of the gates. About the two of the extra gates: Tølt: Is when the horse alternately set left hind, left foreleg, right hind and right fore-leg in the ground.  This is a gait without tissue. And the rate is four strokes and can sound like a drum beat. []
 * What kind of qualities makes the Icelandic horse so special?**

Pace as in Iceland they call //Skeið// - Pace is a quick, two-stroke gait with tissue, where the same bone couples moves together.  Flying pass is a designation of pace in the competition formal or in a form of a show. This gate is very exert and hard for the horse and takes place at a short distance of 150 or 250 m eters - [] - World record I think is 50 or 60 km/hour.

__Walking__

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