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Gaited Horse Book and Gift Catalog
Whispering Pine Press, Inc.
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Gaited Horse Book and Gift Catalog
C/O Whispering Pine Press, Inc.
P.O. Box 1469 Spokane Valley, WA 99037-1469 USA
Phone: (509) 927-0404 Publisher’s website – flash: www.whisperingpinepress.com Publisher’s website - html: www.bookcatalog.info Publisher’s e-mail: info@whisperingpinepress.com Publisher’s e-mail: info@bookcatalog.info
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Judging NASHA Park Gait: The object of Park Gait class is to pick the most stylish horse for short distance riding. It must be remembered that this horse is still a travel horse. The judge should select the most stylish horse with the smoothest possible ride and the best manners. Loss of smoothness must remain minimal. Style, brilliance, animation and presence combine with smoothness, naturalness of gait and manners. The Park horse should show some range in gait, but it is of less importance than it is in Road Gait class. The horse must maintain a solid intermediate 4 beat gait whenever a Park Gait is called for. Contact with the bit should remain light. These horses may show more spirit than in Road Gait class, but this additional spirit should be easily controlled. Stumbling should be penalized. Horses showing lack of endurance must be penalized. Any horse lacking serviceable conformation should be faulted to the degree it would interfere with the horse's ability on the trail. Manners are important to Park Gait horses. At the end of the class the horse will be required to stand quietly while the rider dismounts and remounts. These are trail horses who also have the ability to "show off". They are required to show good trail manners and to maintain a calm tractable attitude when asked to come down from a park gait. Any tack can be used; Traditional, Plantation, Australian, English or Western. Mechanical Hackamores, bosals and sidepulls are acceptable. Any combination of tack styles is acceptable. mane and tail adornment is required and consists of 1 to 3 flowers (real or artificial) with ribbon streamers in the mane and 1 to 3 flowers (real or artificial) with ribbon streamers in the tail. Horses are shown in full mane and tail. Tack should be fancy, however tack and dress must be considered the least important aspect of judging a Park Gait class and would be important only as a tie breaker. The horse must be trail shod (shoe suitable for long distance travel) or barefoot and with a hoof length suitable for long distance travel. Any sign of 'soring' will result in a vet check and if found will result in immediate disqualification. No NASHA award program points in any class during that show will be awarded for that horse, rider or owner. The horse, rider and owner will not be allowed to enter any other NASHA classes at the show. No action devices are allowed in showing or training. NASHA Judging License: Anyone can apply for a temporary judging license who is a member in good standing of NASHA. After 10 temporary judging assignments a judge must apply for a permanent license. No more shows can be judged as a temporary judge. A permanent license can be applied for at any time and requires a resume of the applicat's past involvement with horses with special emphases on trail experience. All the breeds of gaited horses that the judge has been involved with and in what capacity should be included in the resume. This resume will be published in The Single-Footing Express for review by members. It will be up to NASHA members to approve all permanent judges. The judging license will be permanent with NASHA until the time the applicant no longer wishes to judge NASHA shows, or is no longer a member in good standing with NASHA, or a case has been made and proven that the judge has taken any form of compensation to illegally influence the outcome of a class. Permanent judges no longer interested in judging NASHA events must notify NASHA in writing. At that time NASHA will remove the judge from the list of NASHA approved judges. Any judge still in good standing with NASHA can again become a permanent. NASHA judge by requesting in writing to NASHA their desire to continue judging. The Single-Footing Express: A magazine designed to feature NASHA horses, their owners and NASHA events. Articles may be submitted for publication at any time and will be published at the first available date after approval. Articles of particular interest: Stories of horses who have earned NASHA titles or participated in events as NASHA horses. History of the bloodlines behind NASHA horses. An article about a NASHA breeding farm. Stories of Single-Footing horses from the past. Horses completing a NASHA Award Program title will be featured with every Title earned. Stories of how members are using their Single-Footing Horses. |
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P.O. Box 1469 Spokane Valley, WA 99037-1469 USA Phone: (509) 927-0404 | Fax: (509) 927-1550 Publisher’s website – flash: www.whisperingpinepress.com Publisher’s website - html: www.bookcatalog.info Publisher’s e-mail: info@whisperingpinepress.com Publisher’s e-mail: info@bookcatalog.info
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