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Re: [RC] breed destruction - heidihmmm - the only Arabians I have had this kind of porblem with are th eones who I acquired grossly overweight - who I had trouble actually gettin gmy legs around. When they fitted back up and lost a foot in the girth, not only was it a smoother trip down their flanks for my legs, but their fitness created softer, more efficient movement. There are Arabs and there are Arabs, too. Not to get back into the thing about traditional breeding, but here is a quote from Albert Harris in his article to the US Remount magazine in 1944, which was used as a preamble to the American stud books: "He is short-coupled, has good, dense bone, strong tendons, and good feet, and so can take his rider over any kind of country and go on indefinitely. His endurance is proverbial. He is an easy horse to sit on. His gaits are so smooth and elastic one does not grow fatigued. This, no doubt, is accounted for by the fact that he does not lift his feet high or pound the ground. He is a good walking horse and has a nice trot, at which he merely lifts his feet high enough to clear the ground, and his canter, or gallop, is low, but smooth and graceful. " Having ridden a great many like this (as well as a few of the other kind) I can tell you that horses like the above do not stress one's knees. The above quote also underscores how much our breed has been altered by modern breeders... Heidi ============================================================ I drink a 50/50 mix of rootbeer and soymilk at the vetchecks. ~ Libby Llop ridecamp.net information: http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/ ============================================================
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