Re: RC: Fear--long

[RhndLev@cs.com]

In a message dated 4/16/01 7:26:55 PM Pacific Daylight Time, 
rides2far@juno.com writes:

<< Why did you mount her over and over? >>

I mounted several times because I was already nervous and wanted to see how 
she would react.  I always use a mounting block because of that stupid knee 
injury last year.  I'm reasonably certain I wasn't hurting her when I mounted 
as she's 14 hh and it's a tall mounting block to let me climb onto Special 
who is 15.2 hh.

<<You're not doing the mare any favor if you scare her to
death falling off and such. >g< Not to mention pulling her down with you.
 How did you do that?  Is she that small, you that large...?>>

Hey, now!  LOL.  She FELL down scrambling away when my husband grabbed for 
the reins.  I may be chubby, but . . .   Also, I can sit a spook pretty well, 
but I swear that one minute the horse was under me and the next she had 
ducked and turned so quickly that she just wasn't under me any more.  Faster 
than gravity, I tell you!

I have decided to sell her, but thought that I would start her training and 
conditioning for trail first.  Maybe I'll call a 4-H leader tomorrow and look 
into that teenager thing.  And hey, if anyone out there is interested in a 14 
hand, four year old gray filly with great legs, good conformation and tons of 
go, let me know!  Sweet filly, I guess I'm just a Walking Horse person.

Rhonda