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Fwd: RE: [RC] [RC] arabs, do you need one forendurance???Jennifer - Dave Smith** Low Priority ** Newbie Questions: I have a four-yr old Nevada Mustang gelding, just barely 15 hh and about 900 lbs. Two months ago we began condition training, with a goal of riding long, slow distances about five times a week. Besides the general conditioning, I'm dedicating this riding season to help him become a good trail horse. So far he's doing well, learning to cope with trail "sppoks", hikers, dogs, other horses and bicyclists. I have two questions: first, the two horses we've been riding with have a significantly faster walking gait than my Hermano. The pattern that has developed is that in the walk, we fall behind the other two and then Hermano trots to catch up. We're able to stay with them in the trot and the occasional lope/canter, but not the walk. My friends tell me that if we keep riding together, he will develop a faster walking gait on his own over time. My question: is this true, or is there something I can do to teach him to walk faster? If so, what? My second question is: how does one know whether the horse one is riding is an endurance horse, or not. That is, do I have to wait until we're last in a number of long distance events to make that determination? Or is there some other method early on of knowing that he has or doesn't have what it takes? Any help in answering these would be appreciated. --Dave Jo Anne Rudolph <jorudol@xxxxxxxxx> 06/07/06 9:35 AM >>> Note: forwarded message attached. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net. Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/Ridecamp Subscribe/Unsubscribe http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/logon.asp Ride Long and Ride Safe!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
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