Any advice on who to talk to
(or will you talk to me if you're the one) about what to do different (if
anything) with our gaited horses in the beginning stages of training for
endurance?
The horse is already a very
well trained horse in most other respects. Mountain/trail training, running
water, bridges, steep ravines, mud, big logs...has competed on drill
team and participated in multiple parades and shows...
It's the long slow
conditioning and training I'm asking about. I've read a couple of the endurance
books and haunted the website and have read ridecamp posts and have gone and
taken pictures for a couple of endurance rides (and plauged them with questions,
too).
But, I'm assuming there are
some diffences with relation to the gaites and how to train with them and
utilize them on the trail and when to move in and out of them...even though its
said that the horses were created to go all day over rough terrain...I have my
doubts when we talk about the scale of training for something like one day doing
a 100 and the long term of my horse is obviously important to me.
I live in the NW
area.
Thanks and much
appreciated!
Ciao!
Cathleen S. Adkison Companion to Gentleman Jack, smokey
black, Rocky Mountain Gelding Companion to Luv Song, DK Bay Arabian 11 YO
Maiden While raising, breeding and showing our little Icelandic
friends
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