five-gaited

[ fahyv-gey-tid ]

adjective

, Manège.

1. noting an American saddle horse that has been trained to execute the rack and slow gait in addition to the walk, trot, and canter, and that is used chiefly for showing.

Example Sentences

A Thursday agency statement says that the gift will be used to establish the Barbara Blacklaw Memorial Fund, which will provide additional prize money for ribbon winners of the Five-Gaited World’s Grand Championship competition.

From Washington Times

We resequenced selected regions of the 684-kb interval in a panel of four- and five-gaited Icelandic horses.

From Nature

We performed whole-genome resequencing of one four-gaited and one five-gaited Icelandic horse, homozygous for opposite alleles at the SNP associated with the ability to pace.

From Nature

Homozygosity mapping using the sequenced five-gaited horse confirmed an IBD region of about 438 kb.

From Nature

A girl in a grey bowler anxiously powdering her nose while a colored boy made ribboned garlands of the mane of a five-gaited Kentucky mare.

From Time Magazine Archive