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Re: [RC] Horse personalities - rides2farAnd you gotta like them on the trail - and often it is only on the trail that you do like them :) I think this is more what I was trying to say. Endurance is such a *job*. I compare horses to co-workers I've known. Some are so friendly, and always cheerful, but don't do their share of the work and tend to hang you out to dry when there's a deadline. Then I think of the grouchy co-worker who is so gruff, but you learn that they are someone who *always* comes through and you can trust them no matter what to do their job. After a while you value their sort of "friendship" far above the one who appears good on the surface. I will say I have sold a promising prospect because I didn't think he liked me and wasn't having fun on the trail, and I'll also say that I'm just about due a horse who isn't a day in day out 24 hour a day challenge to my abilities and endurance. I wouldn't put up with a nasty horse, but sound, driven and opinionated sounds like one I can count on. If it comes down to choosing between a cream puff who'll ever so sweetly quit, and an individual that's a challenge but "there" for me at the end of a ride, I'll go for the challenge. If somebody wants to send me a sweet horse, who'll pulse down immediately, never quit, and stay sound...I promise not to turn it down! Angie ________________________________________________________________ The best thing to hit the Internet in years - Juno SpeedBand! Surf the Web up to FIVE TIMES FASTER! Only $14.95/ month - visit www.juno.com to sign up today! ============================================================ Of course things aren't perfect, perfect doesn't exist on this earth. Doesn't mean we won't go on trying to get better at what we do. Besides, if everything was perfect today, what would you do tomorrow? Slamming each other doesn't get anything done. ~ Dot Wiggins ridecamp.net information: http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/ ============================================================
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