In a
message dated 5/31/20068:57:20 AM Mountain Standard Time, heidi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
>>Bottom line, ride what you've
got.
Frank
wrote:
>>I've noticed that in this sport, folks usually end up riding the
horse they make.
Regardless
of breed, regardless of who trained the horse, regardless of how well-trained
the horse is, it's usually the rider and the rider's "style" (read,
"way of going") that determine the proper use of gaits, the
suitability, the success, the non-success of any given horse.
I still think that, if you’re not a
rider who likes Arabs, you’re going to do better with a non-Arab.After all, one of the requirements of
Endurance is that you ride the horse to get it fit, and I don’t like
spending hours in the saddle on a horse I don’t like J
