Best Hunting Airedale Footage

The show Airedale…l don’t know about now but I don’t think it has changed since then…
In my younger years I used to run my dogs at the beach when no one went to that particular beach in those days…I ran the dogs for exercise and to teach them how to road my style…I also did this to find out speed and stamina from each dog…

I had a Sandhill x Mooreland Airedale, probably around 65-70 lbs…very good looking dog…short coupled and flashy…this dog at half to 3/4 speed had a normal gait…anything past that and he started hopping…I knew that wasn’t normal so I slowed it down until he would get back into a normal stride…

Of course there is a reason for everything and I came up with a theory as to why he hopped at higher speeds…the show Airedale is bred to be short coupled compared to being tall which will exaggerate the leg length… not a square built dog but taller than long…this will make the dog prance…must pick up front legs before rear feet hit front feet making the dog prance…looks good but not very efficient…you don’t see this in the wild…
The hackney horse was developed in this way…breeders call it natural…it becomes a natural trait when the hackney is selectively bred to be short coupled…natural gait out of necessity due to unnatural shorter body…