Five-gaited

The ability to perform an ambling gait or to pace appears to be due to a specific genetic mutation.

[5] A five-gaited horse might also perform the fox trot rather than the stepping pace.

[6] In the Icelandic horse, the five gaits are the walk, trot, canter, tölt and the skeið, or flying pace.

The tölt is a lateral four-beat gait compared to the rack of the Saddlebred, but in style of performance sometimes more closely resembles the largo of the Paso Fino, or the running walk of the Tennessee Walking Horse.

[7] The flying pace is a two-beat lateral gait, with a moment of suspension between the two sets of footfalls.