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The FreeRepublic Saddle Club thread! - Thread FOUR
See our who's who page! ^

Posted on 01/31/2005 8:31:31 AM PST by HairOfTheDog

*New* The FreeRepublic Saddle Club - Who's Who *pics*

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?

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. In the previous threads we have had a great time talking through lessons, training, horse lamenesses, illnesses and pregnancies... and always sharing pictures and stories.

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 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. There are lots of ways of doing things and we all have our quirks, tricks and specialties that are neat to learn about.

Previous threads:

The FreeRepublic Saddle Club thread - thread ONE
The FreeRepublic Saddle Club thread - Thread TWO!
The FreeRepublic Saddle Club thread - Thread THREE!

New folk and occasional posters, jump right in and introduce yourselves, tell us about your horses, and post pictures if you've got them!


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To: FrogInABlender; HairOfTheDog
That is a beautiful halter/bridle combo.
An Amish man in the area, made some really nice leather ones, but I like that better.
41 posted on 01/31/2005 9:46:00 AM PST by MissTargets
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To: cowboyway

I use a rope halter on our gelding when he needs it. He "ain't " going nowhere with it. I switch with riding though because it doesn't fit well with the briddle.


42 posted on 01/31/2005 9:47:07 AM PST by CindyDawg
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To: CindyDawg
I like 'em because I can take the bit out at the lunch break and give Blade a little snack too. He seems to appreciate it. I just hook it on the back of the saddle.


43 posted on 01/31/2005 9:48:04 AM PST by FrogInABlender
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To: HairOfTheDog

Weird. My computer keeps jumping back to thread 3. It's raining here. I got a tray from the kitchen. Not sure if I'm eating a porkchop or chicken breast:')


44 posted on 01/31/2005 9:48:56 AM PST by CindyDawg
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To: MissTargets

If they make leather, they'll make the nylon too. Just make sure to ask for ALL SOLID brass hardware or they'll put the cheap stuff on there.


45 posted on 01/31/2005 9:48:56 AM PST by FrogInABlender
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To: MissTargets; Duchess47
Pony's feet are striped because when you look close, she actually has dark skin right at the coronet band in the front. I hosed them off so you could see real well.

Her back two are all white. Here she is in her "I am very confused about what you are doing to me so I'll park out." That's the Hackney in her. She offers the stretched park as her default answer when she doesn't know the right one.

Like my halter fashions?

46 posted on 01/31/2005 9:53:33 AM PST by HairOfTheDog (It is no bad thing to celebrate a simple life!)
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To: HairOfTheDog

Don't be abusing my poor Fatty Lumpkin! *wink*

hehehehe...Just popped in to say a quick hello since I saw you all have a lovely new thread! :-D


47 posted on 01/31/2005 9:56:09 AM PST by RMDupree (HHD: My resolution? Spend more time with my friends in the Hobbit Hole!)
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To: RMDupree

You know I'd never... ;~D She's got me in her pocket.


48 posted on 01/31/2005 9:57:26 AM PST by HairOfTheDog (It is no bad thing to celebrate a simple life!)
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To: mommadooo3

I have never been to the Equine Affaire, have you? I will be coming back from Tennessee that weekend, and going thru Columbus. Maybe I will check it out.


49 posted on 01/31/2005 10:03:19 AM PST by MissTargets
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To: HairOfTheDog

She's really sweet, even if she has a wee lil' but of mischief in her. *grin*

It's all Bay's fault, you know. He keeps biting her butt.


50 posted on 01/31/2005 10:13:42 AM PST by RMDupree (HHD: My resolution? Spend more time with my friends in the Hobbit Hole!)
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To: MissTargets
Hi!

This'll be year 3 that this family has been involved. Oldest daughter and hubby have gone for the last two. I'm signing on for THIS year's.

Most of the exhibitors/sales booths folks are super nice.

51 posted on 01/31/2005 10:18:20 AM PST by mommadooo3
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To: cowboyway

Speaking of excruciating pain to bulls, I have a story. In high school, my husband raised cows, bulls and pigs. One day, my husband and some other ag guys were hauling a big bull somewhere in an open top trailer. He said that they were doing 70 miles an hour or so on a main highway when the bull reared up, put his front legs over the top of the trailer and climbed on out. It happened so fast that they didn't even have time to slow down. Bull falls out and bounces across the highway, then gets up and runs off. When they finally caught him all his injuries amounted to was a couple of skinned places. Judging from that story, I seriously doubt a bucking strap causes excruciating pain.


52 posted on 01/31/2005 10:26:50 AM PST by tuffydoodle
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To: HairOfTheDog

The pony's stripes are just due to the coloring of her feet. I'm pretty sure she's not a closet appaloosa even though she may have the personality of one :)

53 posted on 01/31/2005 10:30:42 AM PST by Duchess47 ("One day I will leave this world and dream myself to Reality" Crazy Horse)
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To: CarryaBigStick
Cody looks like he was bred for roping and reining...sweet.

Yeah, he's got Two Eyed Jack, Zippo Pat Bars, Watch Joe Jack, and some Poco Bueno on up there a few generations back. Got a real good disposition and a quick learner. First time I swung a rope off his back, he didn't budge.

54 posted on 01/31/2005 10:54:23 AM PST by cowboyway (My Hero's have always been cowboys.)
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To: HairOfTheDog

I think it's cute about Pony's "default answer". She sounds pretty smart to me. She know's that this answer usually makes "people" happy so why not try it.


55 posted on 01/31/2005 11:03:50 AM PST by FrogInABlender
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To: FrogInABlender
It's rather cute when she does it, because the more nervous she is, the more she'll keep stretching it longer and longer... She'll actually stretch it out to a point it's a little hard to step out of and she's almost stuck!

Do the NSH/morgan/hackney/gaited horse types that pose this way do this by some kind of instinct? It's an odd instinct if it is.... I've assumed somewhere back in her youth someone actually taught her this, but it seems an odd thing to know unless she was actually shown at halter early on wherever she came from. She did it from the first day we brought her home whenever we tugged her line. Made it hard to teach her to lunge at first. If we gave a sharp lead correction, she'd get flustered and park out... It always got her off the hook, because we'd have to go give her an A for effort. ;~D

She is smart, and she really tries hard to be good. I think that when she does blow up, it isn't malice or an unwillingess to cooperate, it's just emotional breakdown. She is either actually afraid, or she's got me completely fooled.

56 posted on 01/31/2005 11:24:59 AM PST by HairOfTheDog (It is no bad thing to celebrate a simple life!)
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To: HairOfTheDog

I don't think it's instinctual for TWH or Racking horses. Most people have to work pretty hard to teach it. I wish my 17h monster would park out. A vertically challenged riding buddy of mine has taught hers to do it and it lowers the stirrup a good 6 or 8 inches when he does it. Very handy indeed!

I'll bet the pony was shown in hand and was taught to do it. Her response is probably a mixture of fear and stubborness. Like you've said before, even though you've never hurt her, she still thinks you're gonna kill her anyways. She's always got that concerned look in her eyes.


57 posted on 01/31/2005 1:14:29 PM PST by FrogInABlender
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To: FrogInABlender

I wish I could communicate mind-to-mind with her. She's a puzzle.

It would lower the stirrup if you could get yours to do it, but they also aren't real strong in that position, at least the pony looks pretty hollow in the back and easily tipped. ;~D


58 posted on 01/31/2005 1:24:39 PM PST by HairOfTheDog (It is no bad thing to celebrate a simple life!)
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To: HairOfTheDog

Maybe that was something she was rewarded or praised for and she just falls back on it.


59 posted on 01/31/2005 1:41:36 PM PST by CindyDawg
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To: HairOfTheDog
It'd definitely keep him from stepping off with me before I was ready. I don't ride him anymore so it's not such a "tall order" now, but it sure was a challenge when I rode him all the time. I'd basically have to take my left left leg and bend it so that the knee was sticking straight out to the left and my foot was at crotch level with the sole facing to the right, then stick my foot in the stirrup so that the outside of my foot was on the bottom of the stirrup iron, then grab a hand full of mane and jump up. I'm 5'7" but I guess I've got short legs or something. It was not a very graceful position at all. ;o)
60 posted on 01/31/2005 1:41:41 PM PST by FrogInABlender
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