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Becky
Semper Fi & The ShadowRat
Huffman Horse and Cattle Company
Fine Endurance Arabians and 'Horned Cows'
hhcc1@htcomp.net
> At 10:15 AM 3/11/97 -0600, Becky Huffman wrote:
> >
> >I would like to know, of these wild, unmanageable berserkers, do
you think
> >that for the most part have been mistreated and/or stalled and
feed
> >hi-powered feed without being exercised?
-------------------->
> I don't think many of us are riding wild, unmanageable berserker
:-) At
> least I'm not and wouldn't.
>
> It's probably a combination of poor handling and a very sensitive
breed in
> many cases - in some cases that is just the horse's tendency -
actually I
> think Arabs on the endurance trail act much, much better than ones
I've seen
> elsewhere getting only normal amts of riding. Endurance riding is
probably
> the only place I've ever seen an Arab ridden in a halter :-)
>
> They are getting alot of riding - and I don't mean just physically
being
> tired but after a while even the spooky, tend-to-befruity ones
(like Tony)
> begin to get sane - in Tony's case it's only taken 3 years of solid
riding -
> I figure by the time he's 15 (he's 12) he ought to be really nice
to ride <g>
>
> Tina | Huntsville, AL
> hickst@nichols.com
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