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Posted on 10/04/2005 9:56:41 AM PDT by HairOfTheDog
This is a horse chat thread where we share ideas, ask for input from other horsemen, and talk about our riding and horse-keeping. We have a lot of different kinds of riders and horses, and a lot to share. In the previous threads we have had a great time talking through lessons, training, horse lamenesses, illnesses and pregnancies... and always sharing pictures and stories.
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So... like the previous threads, this is intended as fun place to come and share stories, pictures, questions and chit-chat, unguided and unmoderated and that we come together here as friends. There are lots of ways of doing things and we all have our quirks, tricks and specialties that are neat to learn about.
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New folk and occasional posters, jump right in and introduce yourselves, tell us about your horses, and post pictures if you've got them!
My mom took em home with her.
Well darn! Were they digital or prints?
Ohhhhh. Poor Tuffy.
I was on a direct route. The driver woke me up about 3 oclock in the morning in San Antonio and told me and about 4 others that we had to change buses because everyone on going to Dallas and they were adding another bus so this one could go non stop. It was cool with me because we had a lot more room but I didn't think about making sure they took my bag off.
I had to buy a dispoable camera (my digital was in the suitcase) and I left the disc at work. I'll go get it in a little bit.
It was that dude that was standing at the door taking tickets.
Well, if I'm honest, I have to say that it was more to calm him down than being sorry. I don't know how to use anger effectively. I'm one of those people that take and take until I finally blow up and everyone looks like what was that about. I don't like how getting mad makes me feel so I try to avoid it. The guy had an attitude problem and I let myself just get drawn into it. Humor and just asking him for a tag would have worked a lot better for me. I didn't want me or anyone else riding with a stressed driver. I was sorry that I acted the way I did but just sorry that I lost contol. You understand? ?
Oh, and I have his name and I'm contacting them for a refund for the camera I had to buy.
Bay threatening his pony, who by all appearances, does not give a damn. ;~D
Prettier picture of Bay, though he's an absolute thing of mud close up.
They have disposable digitals now?
No. I took it to Walgreens. I gave Reba the prints and kept the disc.
Oh - I see.... that's cool, that you can get even film pictures on disk now.
Great pictures.
This is me, just a-lurkin' as I have been for the past week.
Well, they're things of mud, and it's a grey dreary day, but sometimes we take what we can get...
Well, even on a gray dreary day, horses at play make it seem sunnier. Thanks for the pics!
Interesting shoes. My mare TB 27 years old foundered last spring , for the first time. Had to take her off pasture and reduce grain. I had just got her to the proper weight. She has slight rotation about a degree. But this summer she was sound and did quite a few trail rides and jumped larger jumps than we had in a while. I was helping another woman improve her x country jumping but she was scared to do coops or any over 2 feet. Tried to get her to do some 3 foot jumps. My mare did fine, but the other rider just got too tense.
In Sept she took her gelding to a baby x country 18- to 2 feet course. The week before her horse was lame and was going to take my mare. However the night before my mare was lame from arthritis and her gelding became sound. We went to the event and her horse stopped on every jump.
I advised her to use a crop and be firm about the request. After she did that, her schooling did better, since Moe then realized she really did want to jump the fences. He was taking his cue from her and just slowing down before the jumps and the rider would let him.
I got a chance to ride Sunday after 7 inches of rain on Saturday and the ground was actaully quite nice. Got a lot of sand and in Sept we did not have any rain and the ground was hard as concrete.
I had a farrier appt and found out about a barn picnic and games. Now I had not ridden in 3 wks since she was lame for arthritis and decide I would come back and play.
Got delayed in home chores and came back to the barn halfway through the games. They had rides with an egg on spoon and a glass of water and relays across the arena and change clothes.
The participants were some young teens and adult women. I competed in a timed event that had to run across the arena, dismount, rip a page out of a catalog and remount, and gallop back to the other side. I took too long, I had just gotten on and did not get any warm up and asked my mare to gallop, she did but I was too slow getting the page and remounting. All of us had our stirrups really long for ease and galloped without stirrups. The women were all on TB 15.2 to 16.3 hands tall.
The next event was to gallop around 3 barrels and hit the soda can off the barrel top with a stick. The ex polo pony went first , but he was too fast and missed the can.
My mare was standing dead quiet but when I shortened the reins to her neck and grapped the stick and said go. We took off. WE were very acurrate and she really had her haunches under her and elevated the front so I could slow and just lean to hit the can. Kept a short quick gallop and did not slow until well past the finish line. MY MARE DID IT IN 16 SECONDS. REALLY GREAT AND WON THE EVENT. WE WERE .5 SECONDS FASTER THAN ANYONE ELSE. PRETTY GOOD FOR 27 YEARS AND NOT RIDDEN IN 3 WKS AND JUST WALKED INTO THE ARENA AND RAN THE COURSE.
Of course I figured she saw the few horses in front and figured what she had to do and just decided to compete. Experience does count, even if we never did barrels before.
I had a nice time and it was fun. Lots of food afterwards and even saw everyones boyfriends and husbands at the barn, which is rare. My son came with me for once. Had turkey and desserts and jsut a fun time.
I like the picture of Cyn, she looks like a freespirit:)
Becky
It was gray and dreary here too for most of the day. I even got sprinkled on a little while i was riding. The woods were so quiet, not even the birds were making noise. We just walked, climbed hills, it was very peaceful:)
Becky
Hey, good to hear from you. Sounds like you had a good time.
I've done those egg in spoon things. One time I was concentrating so hard watching the egg I rode the horse right into a corner of the arena without even knowing it till the horse stopped and I looked up:)
Becky
Can't resist:)
Becky
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