The Icelandic horse should have tölt with good 4-beat rhytm, elegant action and large steps with both the hind legs and the front legs. The movements should be very supple and there should be a great speed range, the horse should be able to be elegant and with clean beat in both slow tölt and fast tölt.
What are considered faults are mainly:
No tölt
A difficult tölt (very trotty, it's almost like trot, like fox-trot)
A pacy tölt, stiff and pace-like
Little speed in the tölt
Irregular tölt, jumping between gaits (víxl)
Short momvements, irregular tölt, where the horse is stronger in one side than the other (using one side more than the other)
Rolling
if the horse can't tölt shlow tölt, or has only bad slow tölt
Little action, no elegance
Bjössi on Dofri from Hofsósi
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