----- Original Message -----
Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2000 9:49
AM
Subject: RC: Re: Breeds
Lif,
Too funny!! thanks for sharing
that. Not funny that you have almost been hurt form these others. Just
gives me more punch for my twin sister who thinks you only need a 16 hh qtr.
horse. She had a morgan go over backward and her husband ended up with
external fixation on his ulnar bone. Her qtr mare tried to go over the
top of me when I tried to give her grain as a treat,. I jumped into the
electric fence to get away. Yikes!!
I think because the Arabs were so well
breed with the bedonians way back when , their inheirant mannerisms is to bond
with people and the mass majority want to please you and want to be a paart of
your herd, making them a great family horse with multiple uses from this
versitile breed.
Kudos to your arabs..........LISA in
Enumclaw, WA
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2000 12:13
PM
Subject: RC: Breeds
At 02:10 PM 6/13/00 -0400, T wrote:
If you are out there to just have fun, then
why would you want
to have to put up with an Arab?
Let's see. I ride my (Arabian) stallion with a
halter. I can hop on my (Arabian) mare bareback with nothing on her
head & ride her around even if no one has ridden her (literally) in 5
years. I can & have tied my reins in a knot on a ride when I was
having problems and let my (Arabian) horse bring me into the vet check when
neither he nor I had ever been on that trail before. Our whole herd
(of Arabs) is voice trained & comes at a gallop from half a mile away
when I yell. I've had one old (Arab) mare walk into the house
accidentally and just stand there, waiting for us to lead her out when she
couldn't figure out how to leave herself because of the 4 sliding glass
doors.
On the other hand.... I almost was killed by a Fox
Trotter when he dumped me then reared up & came down with front hooves
aiming for my chest - narrowly missing me only because I saw him coming
& rolled. A NSH with a "secret" rearing habit almost went over
backwards with me with no warning. I'll never EVER ride a Morgan again
in an endurance race - that was like riding a jackhammer with no
brains. Got a bite scar on my head from a QH. Only time I've
almost gotten lost on a trail was when I was riding a Paint. And last
but not least, I'll never turn my back on an Appy - more than one I've been
around is just a tad too fast to let fly with those hind feet.
Sure they're not all as individuals representative of their breeds
but on the other hand it makes me want to ask....
What is this
"putting up with" Arabs about, exactly? Huh, huh?
Lif
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