[RC] Horse color and night riding. - Dean A. Conti
I thought all the discussions about horse color were rather
academic, until last night. I wasn’t able to get out on our training ride
until after 4PM and went further than I should have. Visibility wasn’t
too bad until we got to a section of narrow, downhill, switchback single track
trail through a dense stand of Fir trees around 8PM. As hard as I tried I could
not see ANY definition of ANYTHING on the ground or down the trail. I gave Jimmy
his head and he did the “marble rolling” nose on the ground thing. I
wondered if he was feeling the trail with his whiskers! Is there such a thing
as horsy radar? The advantage of a grey horse in this situation is I got to see
a faint glow of his neck and head so at least I knew which way was down. On a
Bay or Chestnut it would have been like floating in deep space. “Beam me
up Scotty”.
Dean and Jimmy (who wants to know what you should call a
horse that is brown and green on the sides/top, with white legs and belly –
Appayuka or Palosplotcho?)
