Next, the horse will continue on his left lead down the second short end of the arena turning at another cone for a 180-degree turn at a lope.
Everybody else, get ready for a bizarre soap opera/pageant, consisting of a succession of static scenes with characters loping into the frame to announce exactly what they're thinking.
While all three gaits are required, most of the pattern is performed at a lope.
During the large serpentine, the horse will lope over the log while loping around the cone.
Now it will do a 270-degree circle loping up the centerline of the arena.
Horses are evaluated on quality of gaits, lead changes at the lope, response to the rider, manners and disposition.
A quirkish, loping tracker of a man, sharp-faced and sharp-eyed.
Hokum also encompassed dances like the cakewalk and the buzzard lope in skits that unfolded through spoken narrative and song.
