Re: FEI Horses

["Maryanne Stroud Gabbani" <gabbani@starnet.com.eg>]

As someone who is horsehunting with the "help" of a dressage riding friend,
I'm not optimistic on the use of really tall horses in this part of the
world. My feeling is that the sand is going to get them sooner or later if
the heat doesn't.  We don't have much in the way of mountains or hills but
watching friends go out with horses for miles of sand, I just feel that the
little ones were built for this stuff.
Maryanne Stroud Gabbani
Cairo, Egypt
gabbani@starnet.com.eg


> Christy considers 15hh her "line in the sand" when she is evaluating a
> prospect for FEI competition.  She feels many of the international
> competitors take the same view and some perfer even larger horses. The
> Middle East buyers are looking for 15hh+.
>
> Leonard's observations are very valid--size may be (or at least
> perceived to be) an advantage for rides that are more like flat races.
> Both Dubai and Pan Am were almost like race tracts.  Pan Am's trail was
> actually mowed across all vegetated areas. I remember thinking it looked
> like a cross country course.  Definitely not our OutLaw Trail.  One
> would expect the qualities required for these differed courses to result
> in different horses winning each.



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