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The Paso Fino is a naturally gaited light horse breed dating back to horses imported to the Caribbean from Spain. Pasos are prized for their smooth, natural, four-beat, lateral ambling gait ; they are used in many disciplines, but are especially popular for trail riding .
The Peruvian Paso and Paso Fino are two horse breeds developed in Latin America that have smooth innate intermediate gaits. Both descended from jennets that came to the Americas with the Spanish. [33] The Paso Fino has several speed variations called (from slowest to fastest) the paso fino, paso corto, and paso largo. All have an even 1-2-3-4 ...
The sport of Paso Fino Horses is autochthonous from Puerto Rico and has its origins dating back to the fifteenth century. [1] Google book Link The Puerto Rican Paso Fino was developed on the Caribbean island of Puerto Rico by the isolating factors of island geography over a 500 year colonial period and the desires of a people for hardy, sure footed, comfortable horses.
Gaited horses are horse breeds that have selective breeding for natural gaited tendencies, that is, the ability to perform one of the smooth-to-ride, intermediate speed, four-beat horse gaits, collectively referred to as ambling gaits.
In the 1980s, Leon established Besilu Stables, and began to show and breed Paso Fino horses. [4] In 2008, Leon bought his first Thoroughbred , and soon after started racing horses. [ 4 ] In 2011, Leon bought Royal Delta for $8.5 million.
Many South American horse breeds have a range of smooth intermediate lateral ambling gaits. The Paso Fino's speed variations are called (from slowest to fastest) the paso fino, paso corto, and paso largo. The Peruvian Paso's lateral gaits are known as the paso llano [18] and sobreandando.
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In the Icelandic horse, the five gaits are the walk, trot, canter, tölt and the skeið, or flying pace. The tölt is a lateral four-beat gait compared to the rack of the Saddlebred, but in style of performance sometimes more closely resembles the largo of the Paso Fino, or the running walk of the Tennessee Walking Horse. Like all lateral ...