What's that thing called....

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When horses get so excited they do a slo-mo dressage style prance, with their heads and tails up and give deep, long snorts? It's just my girl did this today while I was hacking and she spotted some scary builder's kit, I just couldnt stop giggling and it crossed my mind that I have never heard a name for this action?? Thanks for any suggestions!
 
I think it is called being a twit!

My mare did it the other day on the lunge for apparently no reason whatsoever - pretty dramatic and wish I had my phone on me to video it at the time.

Ponceing is another word I would use - don't believe there is a posh word for it though.
 
Prince is brilliant at passage and Piaffe, shame he can't do it in the school when asked.
Such elevation and expression when passing youngsters in a field!!!!
 
Passage! "The passage is a movement seen in upper-level dressage, in which the horse performs a highly elevated and extremely powerful trot."

If she didn't move forward then you have a Piaffe.

The snorting is a stallion trait (which my mare also does!). I take it she's the Matriarch!?

My daughter's 3 year old likes to 'passage' past the Shetlands (there are 7 of them and they're all black)...... promising for his dressage future.....
 
Ari does it because he is a prat :D He looks like a true 'Son of the Desert' with his tail up like a flag, nostrils like buckets and snorting like a grampus doing, 'look at me I is soooo preeeeeety' and doing the most amazing suspended trot.
 
Haha thanks I wasn't sure if there was a technical term, there ought to be!! Yes she is the matriarch, she bosses all my other 3 horses; how strange!
 
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