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Arathen123
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hello to all the rangers out there. i was wondering is any of you own or use a horse as part of you costume?
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Sure would be nice.

Sort of off topic, but I recently read an article about folks who had been reading "A Game of Thrones" and the rest of the Martin series and commented about people riding garrons. It turns out that in the Middle Ages and on at least through Chaucer's time, long-distance travel was done mostly on these short horses. Battle horses and even the types of horses that we see in the "Lord of the Rings" films like Brego and Shadowfax were not 'travel' horses. An analogy someone made was that you wouldn't drive a Corvette or Porsche to do a cross-country off road rally.
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Mike Lodes spends about five minutes on the medieval traveling horse in his show "Going Medieval". The horses have a special gait the "amble", a very quick pace with little of the bouncing you'd get from a normal gaited horse.

If you get a chance to see this show do so, well worth the time. So far I've only been able to find clips on Youtube. The whole show was recently on History Channel so I have it on my dvr for the time being.

As far as the original topic goes, yes there are several people here who have horses: Arik Estus and RD Metcalf both have horses and several others are horse archers so presumably they'd be using their own horses. Most of the forumites that have horses or access to them, visit the forum infrequently, so you will get responces but it make take some time.
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I shy away from wearing a horse on my costume. They are, as a rule, very heavy. :shock:
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Arathen123 wrote:r use a horse as part of you costume?
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This should give some a better idea of ambling:

First Wikipedia- Palfrey
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palfrey

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icelandic_horse

http://amyraby.wordpress.com/2012/09/26 ... e-palfrey/

The third one also contains a video of how an amble looks
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Peter Remling wrote:Mike Lodes spends about five minutes on the medieval traveling horse in his show "Going Medieval". The horses have a special gait the "amble", a very quick pace with little of the bouncing you'd get from a normal gaited horse.

If you get a chance to see this show do so, well worth the time. So far I've only been able to find clips on Youtube. The whole show was recently on History Channel so I have it on my dvr for the time being.

As far as the original topic goes, yes there are several people here who have horses: Arik Estus and RD Metcalf both have horses and several others are horse archers so presumably they'd be using their own horses. Most of the forumites that have horses or access to them, visit the forum infrequently, so you will get responces but it make take some time.

Here is a section from "The Real Robin Hood" from the History Channel where the difference between medieval war horses and travelling horses is discussed. It starts at 6:15.

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