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I loved this post and it's so true. My mare does a lot of
these things too. She isnt' big on going first. She will if I insist, but
she's a Babson bred 1/2 Arab (her dam) Part bred Shagya Arabian by
Budapest. I've been told that Babson mares are particularly self
preservationist. when we did our first ride she did exactly what you
described. I thought I'd worn her out, b/c she just crawled along for
awhile. people passed us and we rode right in front of the drag riders
who had to circle to stay behind her. then we had a P &R and the 2
miles marker and she perked right up and was good to go again. I 
have to read her to see if she's misbehaving or giving me a sign.
Usually, she's giving me a sign and I have learned to listen.

At 05:45 PM 2/5/04 -0800, Mike Sofen wrote:
> She was fine. The next morning I
> asked Jim what happened out there. He
> said - it's a mare. She felt something was not right (she was
> getting
> dehydrated) and went into a self preservation mode. Thinking back I
> remember times when she would slow down - independent of what the
> horses
> we were with would do - for a while an then on her own pick it up
> again.
> Jim said that is something he sees in mares that he doesn't see in
> geldings. They seem to be pre programmed to take care of
> themselves.

Alice Yovich,
NATRC Reg. 4, Texas
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