Anyone Experienced this? Guessing VicJP may have!

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Right this might sound a bit odd, but I hacked out with a friend last night and we had a gallop (not the odd bit obviously!).

The 17.2 warmblood she was riding kept up with Ty nicely but we were mucking about and I was trying to get Ty ahead etc etc. They were pretty much neck and neck.

Bearing in mind Ty is only 15.3 he was a similar speed to the warmblood. HOWEVER, I was trying to explain that about 5 times since I've had Ty he's launched into a gear above gallop. Never experienced it with another horse and I'm guessing it's just a TB thing. I really do feel the G force when he goes that fast!

Am I going insane or does anyone else know what I mean - i'm guessing Vicjp can add some light to this?
 
Know exactly what you mean. I think that every horse has that 'extra' gear - but seldom use it.

They seem to drop and go. It takes your breath away........
 
Yes, I know exactly what you mean! I have discussed this with other people before, including some very experienced horse people, and they said the same. First time Titan did this was at the Boxing Day meet last year when two huntsmen came racing past either side of us! He laid his ears flat back (not in a nasty way, he never bites or kicks, it was just streamlining!), dropped and found his 5th gear!
 
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Know exactly what you mean. I think that every horse has that 'extra' gear - but seldom use it.

They seem to drop and go. It takes your breath away........

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Phew thought it was just me. I suppose most TB's are trained to use it whereas other horses arent?
 
haa haa - glad some of you others have felt the force too!

It is such a buzz when they really get that urge to properly go......
 
I used to take my last 'nearly full' TB out on some common pasture land near her stables where there was a mile gallop on a slight incline.

Fantastic - my make up used to split down the middle of my face and move towards my ears, my eyes ran in the same direction - god help you if you hit a Bee.

Fantastic.
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yup - took my exracer on gallops during a sponsored ride last year, thought we were going really quickly until he seemed to find yet another gear and just wen't!! It was a proper runny eyes and white noise gallop....

I've never felt that on anything else....
 
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I used to take my last 'nearly full' TB out on some common pasture land near her stables where there was a mile gallop on a slight incline.

Fantastic - my make up used to split down the middle of my face and move towards my ears, my eyes ran in the same direction - god help you if you hit a Bee.

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Haa haa - we were going pretty fast last night and my eyes were running. We both had the biggest grins on our faces though - I think that may have had something to do with my running race commentry during the gallop
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yup - took my exracer on gallops during a sponsored ride last year, thought we were going really quickly until he seemed to find yet another gear and just wen't!! It was a proper runny eyes and white noise gallop....

I've never felt that on anything else....

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See that's just it - i've had numerous horses and ponies and none of them have done this. Even my old arab mare wasn't that quick.

I think it's a TB thing
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Yes - my TB is the same - remember galloping once, & he moved up a couple of gears - the first time he did it I thought "this is the fastest I have ever been" then he went up another gear & I thought the same thing again. It is absolutely magic!
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I dont think Bruce knows how to gallop. No amount of Kicking gets him out of his flashy warmblood canter. Even when he bolted once he was on the bit and just going a bit faster than usual.

Poncey Warmbloods.
 
They drop and flatten dont they - I knew she would stop at the top so I could really go.

My new horsey has more TB but is less TB type so not nearly as fast.
 
Yes I completely understand! My boy has a well establish 6th gear! I experienced it last night in fact, went for a gallop in a nice open field and suddenly Louis slips into 6th and the speed is unbelievable! We've often left bigger horses miles behind us! LadyMagoo has witnessed Louis' 6th gear! While I don't mind having a gallop, I do admit that 6th gear can be a bit unnerving sometimes...especially when you are bucking at the same time
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yup.
Mine likes to do it any time he's asked for a faster canter! But when eventing:WOW! No time faults this year so far!
 
I don't think its just TBs, mine has it and he's a cobx! He doesn't do it very often, but when he does its usually followed by me screaming "oh my goooooood"!. Its the sort of speed that immediately makes tears in your eyes and you have to cling on from being forced off the back! I think he is rather speedy for a cob though, even his fast gallop (as opposed to superfast gallop!) was faster than any TB we've ridden with.
 
When i galloped my coloured cob in company, he would go into turbo gear, trouble was, he was then difficult to stop and would jog after that. i haven't found the turbo gear on my tb yet, but then i haven't tried and he doesn't want to be front any way
 
lol - my warmblood has that gear - but my old ID x TB has only 15'2" and I remember him using it when trying to beat a 16'3" TB in p2p training when we went out for a hack. I suddenly realised I was just a passenger and had to hold tight till he decided his 'race' had been won!
Fantastic!
It makes your blood run ten times faster - I miss it more than anything really!
 
It is a true TB thing!
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There is nothing I have ever experienced that can gallop like a TB can.

I used to exercise a lovely pally pony when I was younger and she used to have a wicked gallop but still nothing compaired to a TB.

My old man Anglo can still shift when he wants too!! Although I haven't got a field long enough to see him go at full pace anymore and I don't ride him now!

My new girl is a ID x TB but as of yet I have not got her into gallop, she much prefers a slower pace!
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Being a big girl the fast canter feels bloody fast, but I would imagine her gallop would be amazing! We will see!!!!
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Ps - if your eyes don't run, your not going fast enough! (he, he) After all look at the jockey's wearing goggles.
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My friend/old instructor took my arab gelding out for me once, took him up a steep grassy hill and said when she got back that even when she used to ride out racehorses in the states, she never felt a horse go from zero to flat out like my boy can! Ears pinned back, he tucks his bum up underneath him and just expodes! He hits that extra gear in about 10 strides from standing, sadly at 14.3 he eventually gets overtaken by the bigger TB types, but I've yet to find anything faster than him from a standing start over a couple of hundred yards!!!
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Often when we have a gallop people don't realise I'm holding him back though, went up a field on Sunday with a friend who has a 17hh 3/4 tb, field is about 750m long, maybe even a bit more, I held him until she was about 1/3 of the way along - and then ...whoosh....we flew! And caught them at the end - he he, she said 'I didn't think you'd catch me!' I just smiled and said nothing
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flint has a 5th gear that makes me nearly pee myself with excitment! its brings butterflies to my stomach! i think its the TB in him! we've raced a few on my yard, and even with the silly bunny hops and cantering on the spot he launches and lands in the lowered posistion.
 
I guess what you mean is when they 'let themselves down'. Horses dont automatically do this, as youngsters you have to teach them. All are different, on some you acheive it by having just your head in front, some head behind(when upsides).
Horses that cant do this yet (some have a few races before they learn) are classed as green. Horses that dont want to are classed as 'ungenuine'. Some horses only do it on certain types of ground.
I have no idea whether it is a TB thing, as I havent ridden much else since I was about 12yo. Well apart from a Cleveland Bay(
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Only ever felt that once. Rode an ex arab racehorse in the desert in Dubai. The guide said let's go for a canter and that was that. My boy obviously thought it was a race and off he went! Wow!! Don't know how I stayed on 'cos I'm used to something a bit more substantial underneath me. My horse is a warmblood. He did win but that was mainly because I couldn't pull him up!!
 
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Poncey Warmbloods.

Try taking them to the beach. My warmblood left everyone else standing. She's got quite a bit of TB in her breeding though. Its a fantastic feeling isn't it?
 
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