RE: Tall horses & MOUNTING!

["Kathy Mayeda" <kathy_mayeda@atce.com>]

Yes, I just forego all pride and look for the nearest stump.  I just have
to choose carefully where I plan to get back on my horse!  I had taken
a lot of hunt seat lessons, therefore don't have a thing about using
a mounting block like some of our weekend cowboys in our area.  It also
helps because there are a lot of short little girls riding 17H+
thoroughbreds
and warmbloods so I don't think that I stick out too much!

Yeppers, and jeans don't work for me either when it comes to mounting.

At my last endurance ride, a guy with an old style metal construction
hard hat yelled out to me "hey no. 59, you've got a problem!"  I held
my breathe and said "What?"   "Well your horse is too d**m tall and
you're too d**m short!"  I just replied "no s**t!"  Then we all burst
out laughing.

I thought about getting a pair of those "cheater" stirrups but I ride
with cages on my stirrups and don't know if that would work.  Anyone
tried that?


Kathy







-----Original Message-----
From: Julienne Rha [mailto:Julienne.Rha.B@bayer.com]
Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2000 3:29 PM
To: - *ridecamp@endurance.net; - *kathy_mayeda@atce.com
Subject: Tall horses


Just curious, Kathy.. how do you get on your horse??  Do you have
difficulty?
I'm 5'2 (with short legs!)and my QH gelding is a tad over 15.1hh..  I have
to
do the splits and literally climb/pull myself up into the saddle if I have
to
mount from the ground.. and if I'm wearing jeans - forget it, I can't get my
foot that high!  I use a mounting block most of the time and I have Harley
trained to align himself to the nearest rock/fence/whatever..

Julienne (STRETCH!!)
& Harley