Re: [RC] Top five endurance horses-Arab/walker - Truman Prevatt
Karen Sullivan wrote:
Kathy, if you want I can send you at
attatchment on my mare Chancy. Things I liked about her were her size
(15.2), big bone and feet, but especially her smooth gaits, surefooted
and the desire to go all day and run up every hill if you let her.
She was the most difficult, cranky mare I have ever had ( some said she
got the worst traits of an Arab-crazy desire to run everywhere, and
Walker-bull headed). She was grouchy, alpha mare, and challenged
everything. IT took about two years of mostly riding uphill to get a
handle on her, and after that there was still a lot of
negotiation.....!
That's the walking horse mare in her,
However, she ended up probably the
all around best horse I have ever had; I trusted her totally, and my
daughter and I did two ride and ties on her.
That's also the walking horse mare in her ;-).
Her downside at endurance rides was
she was pretty big-bodied too and took longer to pulse down...probably
didn't drink enough...but was getting better. Only did 4 50's....(got
pulled from the 5th when she lost a shoe), but at some point she
knocked her sesamoid bone.....and was intermittently lame...so semi
retired now.
I think you need to be careful with the conformation in the walking
horse. The big bulky type just have problems getting rid of heat where
as my mare did fine - would drop with the Arabs. She was about even
Merrry Go Boy x Midnight Sun lines and from what an one "old timer"
told me she got the MGB body, long thin lanky flat muscles that had a
lot of surface area to bulk so she could cool fast. You don't do a 3:40
50 in South FL with a horse that does not cool well.
She did not gait, which I did NOT
want anyway. She had an extremely fast walk, nice trot and very smooth
canter.
Ah that canter - don't you love that canter? It's to die for. With my
mares canter and her walk - who needed a trot, gait or anything else.
There is a new registry trying to
get started to promote the cross called Airwalker.....I think Laura and
I talked about this....
Karen
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