[HairOfTheDog]

You're right.

I think there are horses that can be real good medium level competitors in both disciplines, but to be really good, it confuses them to be two different kinds of horses.

The head set and their gaits should look different, and it to often looks the same.

[PayNoAttentionManBehindCurtain]

My daughter got a wild hair a month or so ago and wanted to go to a small show. She was going to take the palamino to do western and a horse she has to do english. The more she rode them to practice the more we realized we had it backwards. We landed up not taking the palamino anyway tho, because I didn't realize till to late that his coggins had expired. (Turned out they never even checked anyway).

The horse she had she just did both. In the english pleasure class the judge came up and told her at line up that she would have had 1st place if she had had an "English" Bridle. Shows how much we know. We thought, and still do actually, that the bridle she used was just like an english one, it was just that it wasn't leather. It was a hand made one by her father in law. But it had the brow, nose, band throat latch, one longer rein. The judge put her last. I was pissed:), there were people there going around in the wrong lead, with the horses nose stuck out not staying on the rail. Jennys horse was just so smooth, right leads, nose down. Oh well, Jenny said she had fun anyway.

Becky