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Member:
Iride2

Posted on Sunday, Feb 1, 2004 - 10:18 am:

I need some help. One of my 4-hers came in to the barn last night and asked me if I had ever heard of a gait called tivolt. To be honest I haven't. It was on a test and she marked it as not being a gait. The leader marked it wrong and told her there was such a gait. I have looked in my book on gaits, and I can't find anything. The only breed I can think of would be the Lipizzaner but I've checked everything on them, nothing. If there is such a gait, I would like to know what breed and what kind of gait is it. I have been working with horses for 15 years and was raised with them but I've never heard of this. Thanks for your help.
Member:
Terrilyn

Posted on Sunday, Feb 1, 2004 - 10:42 am:

Could she possibly mean a "tolt"? That's the gait that Icelandic ponies are known for...

Try this link:
https://www.toltnews.com/
Member:
Terrilyn

Posted on Sunday, Feb 1, 2004 - 10:48 am:

And oops...even though they're pony-sized, the website states they are referred to as Icelandic HORSES. Never as ponies! If you've ever seen this gait, it is incredible to watch....fast, flowing and graceful.
Member:
Gillb

Posted on Sunday, Feb 1, 2004 - 11:25 am:

I was also going to say the Icelandics 'tolt' - I have never heard of a 'tivolt'!
Member:
Alden

Posted on Monday, Feb 2, 2004 - 2:45 pm:

It is possible the leader wrote phonetically? I'm not sure how "Tolt" or "Toelt" is really pronounced, I'm not up on my Umlaut, but I found this on the web at https://www.asaddlery.com/info/other_gaits.htm.

“So I called the gait 'tolt'. (I think 'tolt' is more common than 'toelt' in North America at least. 'Tolt' is pronounced like 'told' with a 't'. The 'oe' in 'toelt' is actually the Umlaut 'o with 2 dots on top'. “

But I think it is safe to say "Tivolt" isn't a gait, common or otherwise.
Alden
Member:
Terrilyn

Posted on Monday, Feb 2, 2004 - 4:09 pm:

An o with umlaut, at least in German, can closely be approximated by an "er" sound. Except the "er" is very rounded. We don't use this vowel sound in English. It's hard to reproduce as an American. If this were true in Iceland, it would be closer to "terlt." German IS widely spoken in Iceland (along with Icelandic). Any Icelandic folks out there who can help with this? :-)
Member:
Christos

Posted on Monday, Feb 2, 2004 - 4:58 pm:

Sandy,
I just run "tivolt" on a very powerful search engine, and it only returned surnames. It seems that there's no such thing, gait or not!
Member:
Hannah

Posted on Monday, May 29, 2006 - 10:53 am:

Old discussion.. But anyway:

The icelandic horse has five (+1) different gaits:
Skritt, trav, tølt, galopp, pass and flyvende pass.
Which translates to:
Walk, trot, tolt, canter, pass and flying pass.

The "Ø" in tølt is pronounced like "eu" with pressure on the last letter. This letter is something we as norwegians have in common with the other scandinavian countries including iceland. All the above have similarities with German, but German is (as far as I know) not videly spoken in Iceland, except as maybe a 2nd language learnt at school..

Anyway, If your have never ridden an icelandic horse in tølt you should absolutely do so if you get the chance, it is amazing

Regards,
Liv
Member:
Mrose

Posted on Monday, May 29, 2006 - 11:49 am:

Liv, is it like a fast running walk? How do the feet move?
Member:
Hannah

Posted on Tuesday, May 30, 2006 - 5:11 am:

Yes, that´s a good description!

I have copied this (and translated)from an norwegian site:
Tølt is a soft, springy and latheral gait without soar, where the horse moves his left hindleg and left foreleg, and right hindleg and right foreleg alternately. There are at least 4 different kinds of tølt; Pure tølt, nature-tølt, pass-tølt and trotting-tølt.
The tølt is an economic form of movement, and the horse often chose to use it in stead of trot or canter while travelling over long distances.

This was the gist of what this page said about tølt, but if you are interested there was a LOT more
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