Sometimes I wish I did have the time, money, energy to show, the one remaining pup we have just glides and has that little kick out with his front feet (some little thing I noticed watching the Yorkie shows, not that I know anything about that, but I noticed the winners seem to have that very neat prance to them). I keep looking at him and thinking so sad he'll probably never be shown. (I'm not planning on showing just trying to learn more about the correct standard etc, so that's why I'm paying attention to his attributes) His topline is perfect and everything else as far as I can tell but of course I'm no show person. But, in all honesty from what I've learned here I don't think he has the proper ear set. I think his ears are probably too big and too wide set (but I don't know if that's something they grow into). But other than that he's seems to be a nearly perfect specimen. Such a nice disposition too.
Anyway, the point was about his "kick out" - I think it's so cool and I always thought that was something the show people trained their Yorkies to do but apparently it's a natural gait. Interesting that's all.
I grew up with horses also. Barrel raced. We lived in CA as kids and my parents (being from the midwest) decided the city was no place for kids and packed us all up and moved to the northwest - bought a ranch, got us horses and put us in every local rodeo my dad could find.
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