Re: RC: Mustangs

[Bette Lamore <woa@stormnet.com>]

Hi Karen
So I take it you were doing the John Lyons thing? Or do you have some
wonderful new drug that we all can buy?<BG>
Bette

Karen Clanin wrote:
> 
> thought you all would enjoy this.  years ago i bought a 3 yr old
> morgan/arab mare, had been caught only once as a weanling to have her butt
> stitched from a dog bite, 2 and a half years later when we got her the
> stitches were still in there.  took 4 adults an hour to catch her in the
> pasture, took me 45 minutes in a stall to get old fashioned leg wraps on
> her, an hour for the 4 of us to get her into a two horse trailer, 2 hour
> ride home she never moved.  when we got her home we couldn't get her out
> because she didn't know how to back up so she stood there while we took the
> center divider out so she could turn around.
> 
> i was showing her under saddle, and placing in the classes, in THREE weeks.
> 
> karen
> 
> At 08:12 PM 8/23/00 EDT, Cowgirgoof@aol.com wrote:
> >In a message dated 8/23/00 5:22:48 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
> >robandcarla@hotmail.com writes:
> >
> ><< John Lyons would be dragged up and thrown rocks at.
> > my intentions were to begin with the current owners in working them and
> > showing them gradually in two lessons per week. Their handling capabilities
> > have been mostly touched when fed. There are two horses. >>
> >Well that's a shame they would laugh at John....I just got a range raised
> two
> >year old stud colt from Idaho (not a BLM horse, but a Moyle that had never
> >been touched), and had him halter broke and ready to ship to Fla with 3
> 1/2 da
> >ys of John Lyon's methods. Sounds impossible right? Not so, I'm serious. I
> >had the use of a round pen, and did most of it in the first day. By the
> >second day i was touching him all over, and by the third day I had a halter
> >on him and was leading him. He's now at home and has never even run from me
> >once while catching him- he doesn't know how...
> >Please write, I'll offer any help I can.
> >Becky in Fla
> >
> >
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Bette Lamore
Whispering Oaks Arabians, Home of 16.2hh TLA Halynov
(yes, REALLY!)
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