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The
trademark of the Paso is a special, inherited, and completely
natural four-beat lateral gait called paso llano. The paso
llano is said to be a broken gait. It consists of a permanent,
harmonic, and rhythmic tapping in which the animal makes a
gentle and pleasant alternating movement. It is a quick advance
in which the center of the horse's gravity stays almost immobile,
making the Peruvian Paso horse the smoothest riding horse
in the world. The paso llano is executed with a distinctive
action in the front legs, called termino, a graceful, flowing
movement in which the forelegs are rolled towards the outside
as the horse strides forward, much like the arm motion of
a swimmer. Both the gait and the flashy leg action are inherited
by all the horse's offspring.
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