Understanding Pony Actions

By Heather Toms At rest, a pony puts his weight on one front leg and on one rear leg on the opposite side. If you consider the 4 legs as 4 corners of a rectangle, the pony stands with his weight on diagonally opposite legs. If you study a still pony for some time, you will see him shifting weight every once in a while from one set of diagonally opposite legs to the other. That is the way that