The FreeRepublic Saddle Club thread! - Thread NINE

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[RMDupree]

Beware of "12 year old horses without papers:)" just as Hair said all horses are 15-2, all unpapered horses are 12:)

Great advice!

[AnAmericanMother]

A girl I knew was half-killed by a Saddlebred stallion that was doped up when he was sold to her.

He was gorgeous but a killer. The vet who came out to subdue him after he attacked this girl had to give him something like 5 times the regular dose of trank to have any effect on him at all.

She was really badly injured, and wound up suing the guy who sold her the horse for fraud and negligence. She did get a judgment against him and I think she actually did collect eventually.

[HairOfTheDog]

We don't know for sure, of course, but we ~believe~ the pony must have been drugged to have stayed on the ground in that auction environment. I thought at the time, hey, if she can keep her head here, she'll be fine.

[FrogInABlender]

Horses Suck :) BigMack

LOL! You sound like my husband!

[Beaker]

Well I just got back from my trail ride. It went well, except that it got cut short because they gated off one of the trails. My trainer was ranting and raving about it all the way home. They gated it off, and then somehow pushed the big boulders that were on the sides of entrance across it so that no one could get through. It kind of looked like this:

OO---OO

So Kathy is going to go with her bicycle and cut a path around the sides so that we can get through. It's a nice stretch to go trotting or cantering through becuase it's a wide open dirt road with no trees or branches to swipe you off. Oliver was a complete brat as soon as we turned around to go home and the whole way back it was a total battle of wills. But he's a fantastic trail horse, he'll go through anything and actually JUMPED into an ice puddle when I wanted to go around it. Kathy had to get off of her warmblood and walk him through. I did snap a picture of him in his stall (Just so you don't think that I've made him up!) :-) I didn't get any trail pictures because all the interesting bits of the trail were past that gate, some nice marshy parts, and a wide flat area that looks like you stepped out of Mass. and into a flat place like Texas.

[HairOfTheDog]

Who owns the property that's gated?

[Beaker]

I ride shorter in the field, and my leg has slipped back a little - but you can see that I have to be careful or I'm just spurring my saddle pad . . .
I have the same problem. I'm 5' maybe 5'1 on a tall day. (Yeah I wasn't made for dressage at all) I look ridiculous on anything over 15 hands especially TBs. I can ride 13 hand ponies and not look too silly. The big broad appy mare that I ride, I look really silly on. My trainer has been keeping me on Oliver because I fit him.

[Beaker]

Who owns the property that's gated?
The town we think. We're not really sure. We're not the only ones that use the trails back there either. Other barns do as well.

[FrogInABlender]

Here's the pic of Bob's new shoes...(sounds like a song title doesn't it)...

Right Front...

Right hind...

His are still set a little too far forward, like I said, there's a breaking in period. That buldge on the inside rim of the shoe should really be about 1/4 inch from the apex of his frogs for the breakover point to be where it should. It's sitting at about 1/2 inch right now. He'll probably be able to go into a smaller shoe as time goes on, otherwise the heels would be too long as the shoe is moved back.

One things for sure, he's a heck of a lot faster now than he was in his old shoes, if his performance on last Sunday's ride was any indication.

Oh, and one more thing, you can't really tell it from these pictures, but his frogs have been left long enough to touch the ground, even with the shoe on. That's the other important thing that's different bwtween NB shoeing princlples and the way most Perimeter Fit farriers do it. It gives the whole inside of the foot more support and keeps the heels expanded.

[HairOfTheDog]

It'd be good to find out... It may have been gated to prevent dumping or drug type traffic back there, or ATVs like Becky's situation, and they wouldn't mind you back there, but it'd be good to know.

[HairOfTheDog]

They sure look like well-designed feet!

[RMDupree]

Hmmmm....I wouldn't think that horsey traffic would bother anyone.

Maybe they're keeping other traffic out? Can you reach the folks that gated it somehow?

[RMDupree]

I want you to know that thanks to what I've learned here from all of you in the Saddle Club, I actually ~understood~ your entire post!

[Beaker]

They're "trying" to keep ATVs and dirtbikes out of there. But ATVs and dirt bikes can just go under the gate. Horses can't crawl.... though it would be nice if they could.

[Beaker]

Here's Oliver!

[HairOfTheDog]

I think you copied the thumbnail or something and then resized it... he's all bitmappy.

[Beaker]

I did resize it in the html. the pic itself was HUGE and while it would resize in photobucket, it wouldn't copy over when I pasted the tag here. Oh bugger. I can post a huge pic, but that would be a little annoying to everyone else.

[Beaker]

Hmm... it looks ok on my browser.

[PayNoAttentionManBehindCurtain]

Can you explain how to do it, or is it something you have to see? Those shoes just sound like a good idea too me, might want to give them a try if things don't go right this time with Harley.

Becky

[HairOfTheDog]

I doubt one big picture is more of a drain than when we post 8 little ones :~D

If it's really too big, post the properties as a link.