QH, Haflingers

["Roberta Harms" <equiphile@hotmail.com>]

  OOps, I keep hitting those wrong buttons on the computer and sending 
noyhing to people, sorry.
  Anyways,I wanted to comment on Haflingers in endurance.  I have a friend 
who brought her Haflinger/half Arab with her when she moved here from 
Germany.  He looks nothing like an endurance horse.  He's big 15.3h, with 
large muscling and huge bone.  He took 2-3years to acclimate to our humid 
climate in the midwest.  He has also done great in endurance.  100milers are 
his best, but he also does well on 50s.  He is conditioned well and can 
handle any terrain.
  He was one of the 20 horses who finished at the Cosequin ride last year in 
very hot, humid conditions.  I rode with her all the way.  In the middle of 
the afternoon my horse could get his pulse down first, but as the day wore 
on he was able to come down as quickly as I. Sure we were not trying to win 
the thing, just finish, but many, many did not.  It was a real test of the 
toughest horses.  The horse has done the ROC also.  He would have been at 
the PAC for Germany, but my friend had a new baby and just couldn't quite 
ride that far yet or get Gero conditioned fully.
  As to QH, I started this game with a 7/8 thoroughbred QH.  We did quite 
well over the years.  The main drawback for me was that I took 20 gals of 
H2O to bring my horses pulse down.  I don't need that volume with the Arabs. 
  I know one reason I bought the horse I ride now is that he is similar in 
build and character to that QH only better.
Roberta Harms

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