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Posted on 10/04/2005 9:56:41 AM PDT by HairOfTheDog
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You know... when we got her, she had only been round penned, and when we tried to lunge her out in that big open field, she was confused and difficult. But she came around, with a little practice.
I was super pleased with her... As I usually am with her. She hasn't been lunged or worked with since last fall.
Hahaha. I do the same thing, no worries. Oh I assure you that if we got into a taped voice contest, I'd win for wierdness. :-) My voice is low to mid range and ... odd...
Hello all, thanks for the ping. Dropping in on an irregular basis. I am looking for a new horse. Had an adventure with a horse trader in Del Rio. More later, have a great weekend all.
Look forward to your story of the horse trader... take care :~D
Watching the video I was impressed with how well she went. Even in the pictures, while bay has his head up and going, she's just going around like its nothing.
I streamed it - we have DSL here and it's pretty fast. Took a minute to get started, but once it loaded up it wasn't jerky at all.
She has a lot lower natural headcarriage. If fact, when her head comes up, she's usually being turdy ;~D
Great. Thanks :~D
I'm hoping Becky can play it... I don't think she's been able to play any of the videos yet.
I like her head carriage - the only thing I might do is get her weight on her hindquarters a little more so that her withers come up a trifle. But since I started doing combined training I find I like them with more weight on the hindquarters. I used to like the straight back, swinging, nose-out show hunter look, but I'm modifying my opinion!
All he's doing is trotting in the video, and only once around, but it's ~something~.
He's not good circling... I've been told that lunging is the hardest on his navicular so I don't do it much... but I think you can see what a big trot he has if he could go in a straight line. When he gets into a rhythm he can go all day... it's his endurance trot.
Did you lunge (longe) the pony?
Yup you can tell that he's an a-rab just by that trot and the way that he carries his tail. :-)
Definitely an "Arab trot", I see what you mean about him being able to go all day once he hits his rhythm.
Heh - well her job is to walk nice down trail with my husband, so she looks good for that. She's probably the clumsiest jumper you've ever seen... it's not a pretty sight ;~D
No - I didn't lunge pony. When I do, since this video thing works so well, I'll set some jumps up :~D
Gracie jumped like a blind rhinoceros (she actually would knock down one crossrail after another) until we got her on the bit and her front end lifted. Now she's smooth as silk, just a pleasure to ride. I've hunted her all day and not been sore a bit (but she was exhausted poor girl, carrying my weight for 4-6 hours is just no joke.)
His trot looks likes it's really nice to sit to.
I have two tones for walk also. One is kind of soft and with the rythmn I want. The other is firmer . It means "I SAID walk":')
Hey. She can jump ditches without falling or losing her rider. What more do you want?:')
Oops. She's probably going thru aunt sheds looking for it.
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