How is doing something you were specifically bred for a problem?

Obviously if he is trotting, your work is already cut out for you.

a gait... w/t/c or pace is something a horse naturally does. Its like me saying I hurt my leg by walking. I dont have much experience with gaited horse, but what your saying makes no sence, you were forced to buy a horse, forced to make him trot and your not allowed to sell him?? sounds like hes not your horse at all.

Lacys Corona
1998 14.3 APHA

-Original poster was "forced" into buying TWH; perhaps by forced she means this was the only horse her parents/trainer would buy, maybe because he was the most affordable.

-Because he is a TWH he wants to gait, but the trainer wants her to teach him to trot, like a regular riding horse.

-Original poster feels that horse is uncomfortable trotting because his personality changes when he has to do it, but he seems fine when he is allowed to gait.

-Original poster wants to know if a TWH could go lame by being forced to trot. She feels like if this is true, she could tell her parents something along the lines of "I need to sell him because if you continue to make me make him trot he will go lame." It's not that she wants to sell a lame horse, she would just use it as an excuse to convince her parents/trainer to sell him, where he could have a more suitable owner and she could have a more suitable horse.

However, to the OP, I don't think gaited horses go lame by doing normal gaits such as trotting. I know a lot of TWH that do both regular horse gaits and Walker gaits, and they're all sound. If your horse is uncomfortable at the trot and has come up lame, it means that something else is wrong and the pain is just triggered when he trots. For example, I know a QH with an old shoulder injury where he ONLY limps at the trot; at the walk and lope he's perfectly sound.

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OP, your story is full of holes ;)

I felt like I was being played with. Really.

I advice you rephrase the whole story so we can find out the real problem instead of guessing about what little information we've been given.

That is, if you care anymore :/

But I don't think your horse would get lame from gaiting. Some can trotting because they aren't using their correct gaiting muscles, but it can vary per horse and what he's used to.

This is all just from watching other people ride Kola and listening to them talk though