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Posted on 09/18/2004 6:56:23 AM PDT by HairOfTheDog
Free Republic has a lot of horse people that have found each other on other threads…. And since we all like to talk horses, how about a thread where it is not off-topic, but is THE topic?
A few of us thought it would be interesting and informative to have a chat thread where we can 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 last thread we had a great time and were a great help to each other working through lessons and training, horse lamenesses and illnesses, questions and challenges and always just our stories we like to tell.
I always have a link to this thread on my profile page, so if you have something to say and can't find the thread in latest posts… look for it there and wake the thread up!
I also have a ping list for horse threads that are of interest, and Becky pings everyone most mornings. Let Becky (Paynoattentionmanbehindthecurtain) and/or me know if you would like to be on the ping list. As FreeRepublic is a political site, our politics and other issues will probably blend in…. There are many issues for horsemen that touch politics… land use, animal rights/abuse cases that make the news…. Legislation that might affect horse owners.
So... like the last thread, 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.
Good Morning:)
Hair: sounds like everyone is settling in nicely. Are you going to ride her today?
Fair day today. Jenny will be here shortly to get Rock, then I will go around 9:00. Probably be there all day.
Becky
Good morning!
Don't forget about the cotton candy today...... : )
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Cotton candy is good, but there is nothing like a fair corn dog. Only time I eat those things.
Becky
That's a yes and no thing. Yeah it helps to have longer legs for leg control, but a good seat, which I have always said you have is more important IMO. Keep your center of gravity, keeping shoulders, hips, heels in a straight line, and the hardest part of balance is over. It looks/looked (from pictures, and when you were here,) that you do that, my feet always tended to drift back behind my shoulders which cause me to lean forward, which made me top heavy.
I was impressed with how you stayed straight when you you were here, which you maintained even when Okie broke into a trot. IMO, you have a naturally good seat, I had to concentrate on that alot.
Your post made me think of a lady we have watched barrel race alot. I'd say she was shorter in the legs, and very heavy, and that woman could fly around the barrels, on huge horses. Don't let her comment get to you. Your balance is fine.
Your getting dumped was caused by too things, 1. lack of experience which will come with practice, and 2. it's hard for most people to stay on a horse bucking that hard.
I'd tell the lady, I'm more concerned with making sure the horse doesn't do that anymore. IMO, she's just trying to shift the blame to you. She has to be at least slightly embarassed about the whole deal with that horse. Truth is, I am surprised that with her "knowledge" she wasn't more leary of buying a horse from a dude string, unless she thought you'd never go out on her by herself. The fact that that guy can ride her by herself, doesn't mean a thing. "Trainers" can make alot of rank horses look good.
Is this guy still riding her the 10 times like he was suppose too? That is what I would be demanding. Someone putting lots of time on her by herself. Not any 10 minute little jaunts out and back. And I wouldn't be paying for it either. She sold you this horse knowing where you were at in your experience. She should be willing to make it right, or give you your money back.
Becky
Good morning! Have fun at the fair! Don't forget the camera!
We might ride this afternoon, yes! She seems very settled. Much more quiet than I would have expected. I wonder a little if it is the fuel in her.... we'll see if she changes in the next week.
Going out to feed breakfast.... gonna feed their grain separate and then open the gates for their hay piles and see. Cyn and the pony won't individually have problems getting along, it will depend on whether the jealousy issue returns for Bay.
I'm going to do ground work today and then I have a lesson at 5 tomorrow. She just called me. The worker taking SL out on trails today. She was very interested in the horse being moody for several days before she bucked. She's put a calendar together and wants to see how she acts around the 17th. She laughed when I told her I groomed her before she watched me ride her and she was just fine and I told the horse "you bxxxx" Anyway if she starts shying away when I touch her flanks and acting moody again she wants me to come get her. She told me that if I can't get to the point where I'm relaxed with her then I can trade her. Sometimes better the horse you know though. I'm just going to go slow and see how she does but if she throws me again I'm gonna sell her.
Now I always thought a SMIRK was a cocky smile such a Kerry, not a look of being SNOOKERED as GWB must have felt when those in control did not quesiton Kerry!
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tr.v. snook·ered, snook·er·ing, snook·ers Slang.
To lead (another) into a situation in which all possible choices are undesirable; trap.
To fool; dupe: “Snookered by a lot of malarkey about drilling costs, a Texas jury... added $3 billion of punitive damages” (New Republic).
To leave one's opponent in the game of snooker unable to take a direct shot without striking a ball out of the required order.
If GWB had question GWB would have come off as a WHINNER!
Hey, Rest:')
Howdy friends! How's the weather in your parts? We've topped out at a crisp 48 degrees this afternoon, and the forecast low for tonight is 28. I think my tomato plants are finally gonna kick the bucket. But the sun is shining, and it is going to be back up to 72 on Wednesday! :o)
Just warm and starting to cool down. Every day it rains though, it seems. Very unusual for here.
I'm starting Aikido back Thur but I'm not bowing :')
Things seem to be settling down now, they are all grazing peacefully in the pasture.
Well, we're heading out to the tack store again. Need to get a stud chain for Cyn, because she's a reach-down-and-graze-while-working kind of horse. And another lunge line. And maybe a lunge whip, if the price is right.
Such a pretty picture. Looks like a family:')
Study this photo...
1- Kerry has the clinch fist Internation Communist salute
2- The donkey has a Red Head and beneath the head the body has a phallix symblo!
3- The DNC letters has a shredded American flag
(grin) You have too much time on your hands , girl! Get you a horse :')
Back from the fair. Long, long, day.
Rocky still not right:(, not sure what the problem is, I'm calling the vet tomorrow, but no riding till we figure this out. He ran a pretty pattern, only about 1/2 second off the placing times, but he wasn't running, and when Jenny came up you could see him knotting up in his left flank. Still could be a sore muscle from the slip last week, or possibly an electrolyte imbalance.
She had to team pen on a horse she had never rode before, that had never seen cows, with another of her team mates that had never penned, so needless to say that was a bust.
Rocky is eating fine, and seems fine now again, but after the run, he did stand very quiet in the stall for awhile. Did not seem interested in the other horses around.
I had 2 corn dogs, and some fudge and taffy:), so not a complete loss:)
The rest was just a fair, that I've seen many times, so didn't do alot of sight seeing.
Becky
She had to team pen on a horse she had never rode before, that had never seen cows, with another of her team mates that had never penned, so needless to say that was a bust.
Hehe..... That sounds like quite a sight!
We're darn tired, but the horses are getting along a lot better. Talk in the morning!
Sorry to hear about Rocky Hopeful it's just as you mention, a sore muscle cramping up.
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