correct link/Warm Fuzzies

[heidi sowards <ribbitttreefrog@yahoo.com>]

Here is the correct link Tamara:
http://snaffle.users.netlink.co.uk/rogues/tamara.jpg

(hint: it has to have .jpg at the end! :) Cute picture!

cheers! heidi



--- Tamara Jane Habberley <tamarahabberley@lineone.net>
wrote:
> Dont know if it counts but my horse is a big warm fuzzy
> right now can not
> shift that extra 80 pounds hes gained with our current
> warm wet UK summer.
> 
> I bought him five years ago. I had been a member of the
> Arab Horse Society
> in the UK for years and passed their prel. trainee judges
> course, but did
> not think I could handle a fiery Arab so looked at
> getting a well bred
> native to school and show and then trade up.
> 
> Saw this horse advertised in the local bargain pages as a
> welsh cob, but no
> papers, so I went to try himas a practice for the real
> thing, big mistake,
> HUGE. When I first saw him my thoughts were 'what an ugly
> horse his heads
> tooo big'. Then I rode him and thought ' theres something
> extra under neath
> here'. so I bought him. I suppose I should have noted the
> significance in
> the owner refusing to ride him for the four phase vetting
> ie. galloping bit
> and instead getting small mad teenager to do so!
> 
> Anyway, bought him and spent a lot of time thinking oh my
> god what have I
> done. He wouldnt be caught, knocked me out in the field,
> spooked and bucked
> and bolted when ridden and would not be schooled. Finally
> rang ex owner and
> ex ex owner and traced his history. He had been sold to
> ex owner as a green
> backed five year old when he was in fact an unbroken 2
> 1/2 year old. His ex
> ex owner had bought him as an untouched wild two and half
> year old stallion
> running out on a welsh mountain with mares. Ex owner 
> said until she found
> that out she kept wondering why he always bolted with her
> eight year old
> daughter...She also said she had never dared ride him out
> alone , which I
> thought was terrible as she knew he would be my first
> horse and that I had
> never ridden outside a riding school before.
> 
>  After many, many dressage lessons and a few embarassing
> competitions ( ie.
> lets impress the judge by bucking, kicking, jumping the
> arena markers etc)
> we stumbled across endurance together which we both love.
> We have had some
> good training rides stopping to mug picknickers and
> releive small children
> of their sweets, and some bad ones , recently hit by a
> ford transit van on a
> hack out. He can either be a sedate and happy chappie or
> a real nutter
> depending on mood/weather/in season mares... one of my
> friends with an Arab
> always laughs at us and says thinks like ' and you
> couldnt handle an Arab,
> ha ha very quiet etc'.
> 
> He will never be a great endurance horse but we have our
> moments, including
> winning a 40 mile speed trophy. When we have of days when
> I think of selling
> him he always seems to choose that night for a good' lets
> dress the owners
> hair by moving it just so with my lips, and whiffle at
> her and insist on
> having head held under owners arm whilst going to sleep
> and then bow head
> between front legs in really cute manner to beg for sugar
> moment' so clearly
> he can spot a real mug at 100 meters!
> 
>   Anyway Iv included a link to a photo of me and him on
> one of our better
> outings two years ago, alas we are both a little rounder
> now!
> 
> http://snaffle.users.netlink.co.uk/rogues/tamara.ipg
> 
> Tamara
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Donna O'Gara <donna@shady-acres.com>
> To: <bkeeffe@nativeson.com>
> Cc: <ridecamp@endurance.net>
> Sent: Saturday, May 27, 2000 9:47 PM
> Subject: RC: Warm Fuzzies
> 
> 
> > I have been reading all the warm fuzzy stories, and
> remembering when I
> > was that little girl.
> >
> > I recently added a "my first horse" section to
> http://ridestories.com
> > and the first story was about my own horse that I
> received as a birthday
> > present when I was 13.
> >
> > Jeannie, may I use this story of yours too? And if you
> have a picture of
> > yourself with Tony I'd love to include it.
> >
> > Does anyone else have a story to contribute?
> RideStories.com is getting
> > to be a good collection of stories. I'm really enjoying
> putting it
> > together, and reading all the stories.
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Donna
> >
> > >> Well, the summer between 6th & 7th grade while at
> Girl Scout Camp I
> > received a card from my father.  My father!  This was
> big.  Inside the
> > card
> > was a picture of a paint horse with a note that said
> "Is this your
> > horse?".
> > WOW! You can bet I couldn't wait to get home to find
> out.  Finally camp
> > ended.  There was no horse at home.  My heart was
> broken.
> >   A few more days passed and the realization that no
> horse was going to
> > appear settled in.  One Sunday a couple weeks later my
> mother, father
> > and I
> > drove to visit friends and pick berries.  I loved where
> we were going,
> > the
> > friends had horses. In fact there were a couple of
> horses tied at the
> > barn
> > all saddled and ready to go when we arrived.  Of course
> I had to touch,
> > sniff and say hello to the big guys. My father
> approached and said the
> > owner
> > wondered if I'd like to ride the paint.  You BET! 
> After a nice ride
> > around
> > the paddock and meadow I came back so the owner could
> go do whatever was
> > originally planned with him when my father asks "Do you
> like him? Do you
> > want him?"
> >   Was this a trick question?  Of course I want him!
> > As it turned out I had saved enough money to buy ol'
> Tony, a halter,
> > bridle
> > and saddle . . . my parents bought all the other
> equipment needed at the
> > time and soon Tony was trailered to our house where he
> lived happily
> > ever
> > after.
> >   It didn't matter that ol' Tony was 19years old and
> retired from rodeo
> > and
> > cowboy work.  He was the most beautiful paint horse I'd
> ever seen in my
> > life
> > and he was all mine.
> >   We'd be gone day after day riding the back roads and
> trails of Grass
> > Valley, we even did some shows that threw spirit back
> into that old
> > horses
> > life.  That old man taught me more than words could
> ever tell.  And
> > secrets!
> > Wow, he was the best ever a keeping them.
> >   I will never forget Tony, my first horse and first
> true love.
> > That was over 40years ago and there have been a lot of
> horses in my life
> > ever since. These days I give lessons to new riders on
> yet another paint
> > horse who loves and cares for her riders just like Tony
> did me all those
> > years ago.<<
> >
> >
> >
>
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