[Fwd: Arabian reputations]

[Lucy Chaplin Trumbull <elsie@calweb.com>]

EAMULE@aol.com wrote:
> 
> ...An Arabian can do everything a horse can do and in at 
> least one discipline, endurance, often times does it better.

Tee hee. 

I was horse camping this weekend with a load of non-arab 
people, and my husband and I prayed like mad that Provo 
wouldn't let us down and act like one of "them crazy 
ay-rabs".

Sure enough, he was as good as gold and behaved impeccably
<phew>.

On one of the days, we rode a 12 mile loop - up from 6200' 
to 8000' and back down again. What really made me chuckle 
was a comment made by a friend who was riding her saddlebred. 
At about the five mile mark, she announced that her horse 
was getting tired now - just about the same time I was 
thinking: "Cool, Provo's just settling down and starting 
to do his job" as he strode up the hill in the lead on 
a nice loose rein.

The only drawback I came up against camping with non-arabs,
was that when it poured with rain both afternoons/evenings, 
poor Provo was shivering his socks off until we got him 
completely blanketed up - whereas the other plump/big-muscled 
horses stood around munching.

But then again, they didn't go up that hill like a walk in
the park the way Provo did, either.<g>

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Lucy Chaplin Trumbull - elsie@calweb.com
Repotted english person in Sacramento, CA 
http://www.calweb.com/~elsie

with Mouse and Provo (who, yesterday, got his first set of 
                      back shoes in a year without incident! 
                      So patience does pay off - eventually)
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