"Death, when you take me, please, do so when I'm on my horse.
And, if it's not too much to ask, take me alone and let the horse live to
run another day."
Gotta put that one on my quote list!! Thanks Howard!
Could this problem of one shoulder being larger than the other
be attributed to riding too much on just one side of the diagonal, in the
trot? Kind of like it is with a right handed tennis player, who will
favor the right forehand, running around his backhand, contributing to a
very large right forearm. Actually, with a tennis player, it doesn't
really matter whether he runs around his back hand or not, if he plays a
lot of tennis, unless he switches hands (my father does this which means
he has no backhand), one arm will be larger than the other.
I have
a former Arabian racehorse and, when I first started riding him, making
right turns in the trot or canter were quite dangerous. I could do
anything going to the left with this horse, but, the right turns were
tricky. He tripped or just seemed to be way off balance. And,
he'd do this really weird thing with his neck, turning it to the left side
as if to tell me I was going in the wrong direction by wanting to turn
right.
Horses are the coolest, most perfect creatures on this planet;
it is us (humans) who screw things up. My guess is if one shoulder
is larger than the other it was a human who caused it to be that
way. Just a wild guess on my part, of course, I could be
wrong. Wouldn't be the first time. lol.
Sorry for all this
posting (call me Sir Heidi) but I've been staying up really late watching
all that hockey (go Flyers) and this causes me to sleep in so by the time
I get up it's do darn hot outside (I hate Florida this time of year) I try
to wait till the late afternoon, early evening, to take my daily ride
(required, for one's sanity). By then the thunderstorms start to
kick in and I ask my horse, "Is today the day which might be our last day,
or do we feel lucky?" The horse responds, "I feel lucky; catch me, God
of Thunder, if you can."
The horse knows best, so, out we go.
"Death, when you take me, please, do so when I'm on my horse. And,
if it's not too much to ask, take me alone and let the horse live to run
another day."
cya, Howard (yea, I kind of ramble on when the
heat kicks in)
>From: Ridecamp Guest <guest-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >To:
<ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> >Subject:
[RC] Asymmetrical Shoulder >Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 18:06:42
GMT > >Please Reply to: Tess Searcy morabs@xxxxxxxxxxxxx or ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >========================================== > >In
response to your message; I had an ex-racehorse off of the track who's
>left shoulder was bigger than the right, it was from running down the
track >to the left, more use of the left lead than the right. He
prefered to >canter in the left lead, I spent a couple of years
teaching him to bend to >the right & to use his right lead more, it
then build up the right to match >the left, he can counter canter now
too. If the shoulder is built up too >much you might need
to shim up the smaller side of the saddle to make it >fit, mine wasn't
that bad, I never had to use shims. Couldn't hurt to have >a
Chiro look at it
too. > >===========================================================Arabians
were >bred for years primarily as a war horse and
those >requirements are similar to what we do today with endurance
riding. >~ Homer Saferwiffle > >ridecamp.net
information: http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/ > >===========================================================
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