Posted on 08/07/2007 7:33:14 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, usually about our horses, sometimes about our dogs, gardens and other stuff we do. :~)
I have a ping list for horse threads that are of interest, and MissTargets will ping everyone most mornings. Let MissTargets and/or me know if you would like to be on the ping list.
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.
Previous threads:
The FreeRepublic Saddle Club thread - thread ONE
The FreeRepublic Saddle Club thread - Thread TWO!
The FreeRepublic Saddle Club thread - Thread THREE!
The FreeRepublic Saddle Club thread! - Thread FOUR
The FreeRepublic Saddle Club thread! - Thread FIVE
The FreeRepublic Saddle Club thread! - Thread SIX
The FreeRepublic Saddle Club thread! - Thread SEVEN
The FreeRepublic Saddle Club thread! - Thread EIGHT
The FreeRepublic Saddle Club thread! - Thread NINE
The FreeRepublic Saddle Club thread! - Thread TEN
The FreeRepublic Saddle Club thread! - Thread 11
New folk and occasional posters, jump right in and introduce yourselves, tell us about your horses, and post pictures if you've got them!
I laughed at that 2nd one too. He looks like a big toadfrog perched up there like that.
Them clinic cowboys love to stand on their horses... ;~\
Yeah, and make ‘em lay down too. Whazzupwidat??
Don’t ask me, I’ve never done either ;~)
I have stood on ol’ Tennessee before, back several years ago when I went to a Parelli clinic. I thought about teaching one to bow before but just never got around to it. I did teach Tennessee to pick up my hat though. Now THAT came in handy a time or two, back before I wore a helmet, and a branch knocked my hat off. He even picked up my sponge-on-a-string out of the creek one time when I dropped the string. He’s a good old boy. Bob would probably pick it up and then tear it to shreads. ;o)
Picking stuff up would be handy ;~)
I worked on training the pony to bow... for about an hour. Haven’t worked on it since. :~)
'Specially on a 17h horse!
Only horse I've ever broke from start to finish, I would hate to have had to do in a hurry. I like to take my time and let the horse THINK about things for awhile.
I'm having a lot of fun with the Big Dumb Blond. He never misses a lead change now -- the kids were having awful trouble getting him to strike out on the right lead. And he's much more flexible, been working on shoulder-in and lateral work with him, he's a big old muscle-bound galoot so he sure needs that flexibility work.
I also found out why I was having so much trouble getting him to stop . . . everybody else is riding him in a gag and I have him in a French snaffle. He's getting the message, finally, though, and he sure does like the gentle bit.
My daughter is home from college and she rode him last night while I rode Gracie. We put the gag on him for her, she doesn't need to be having to dig in and haul, she's a skinny little girl. She's trying out for the equestrian team at college, and she wanted to get some last-minute coaching from my trainer.
So is this Big Dumb Blond your horse or does he belong to the trainer? Gracie belongs to the trainer too doesn’t she?
The Big Dumb Blond was given to our trainer because he was "uncontrollable" in the hunting field.
Typical situation with a big man riding him who thought he could out-muscle a horse. This boy is very, very forward, but he really is a big softie, and once he was shown what to do instead of being beaten and dragged around by the mouth, he is a different horse. He isn't the brightest bulb on the porch, but if you show him a couple of times what you want, he is a good, willing worker who wants to please his rider.
My trainer hunts him with the Shakerag on Fridays, I think the former owner is kind of sorry he parted with him now, but he can't have him back (too many witnesses!)
Men (not all men I hasten to add) can be way too rough with their horses. I see it all the time on the polo field . . . no finesse, they just drag them around with a couple of pounds of iron and chain in their mouths. I was working polo ponies for a guy and asked him, "You want lateral work, flexion, circles, what?" He said, "Just gallop him around to the right for 30 minutes." I said, "OK."
We went last year when CCox won the 1st time. TV said he won again. I liked it alot. Hal wanted to go again this year, but I’d rather go to something with gaited horses.
We went to Shelbyville,TN today and he got a Tucker Endurance Equitation with English rigging. I’m hoping he doesn’t like it and I will take it over for him!!!
Woah, how the heck did the Tweekster do that? That’s some talent.
I sure hope that today all that snow is just a bad memory:)
Oh, that is just wrong :) Although some horses coming into the halter ring are just about that bad.
That poor kitty - she definately used up one of her nine lives there.
The arena across the street from me is having a colt starting clinic 3/28,29,30th conducted by Tony Sumner and Kelli Lyon. I don’t know who either of them are.
I’ve never heard of them either... You gonna go?
No, I’m not going although I may watch part of it out my kitchen windows :) I already spend more time than I care to watching colts get started :) - well, that’s not exactly true, but weekends are pretty hectic for me. Of course, if one of them wants to start a 3yr old app filly for me I might reconsider.
Well, they might... :~)
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