Interesting weekend
sjorg...@netpublishing.ca
was so pleased with my guy. No hesitation at all through deep water
and mud, and only one "are you really sure about this?" when we came
to a plank bridge that had a lot of wow in it. As there was a horse
right behind us, I didn't fight but just stepped aside. The other
horse, which was familiar with the the trail, crossed the bridge and
Mac figuratively held his breath and followed. The second bridge we
came to he didn't even hesitate. Our time was bang on, and we only
had 4 penalty points for heartbeat being over 44 bpm 30 minutes post
ride. As Mac's resting heart rate is 40, no surprise there. It was
also neat to see so many beautiful, but sensible Arabs. Total eye
candy.
Then I Sunday I audited a driving clinic. One beautiful pony was
carrying his head behind the vertical. Once around the ring, and the
clinician stopped the driver, and shortened the side straps of the
bridle by one hole. Within minutes the head carriage changed
completely as the pony relaxed and the nose came forward to the
vertical. The clinician referred to a second horse as a potentially
great western pleasure pony -) and the lesson was spent getting the
head up instead of trailing in the dirt!. A third driver was a young
girl heading for the show circuit, so that session was spent polishing
her position and harness turn-out. (No way would I ever be interested
in showing. All sorts of fiddling around to say nothing of hours
cleaning horse, tack, and carriage. I am a knock of the big clumps of
dirt and get going sort of person.)
All in all a most satisfying horsey weekend.
Sally
Maureen
Sally,
Where was your ride held?
Maureen
sjorg...@netpublishing.ca
The ride was held near Finch, Ontario, just past Berwick. Sponsored by
OCTRA but held through the Stormont Arabian Horse group. It looked
like public trails through a model forest. Not sure if the Larose
forest extends that far or not.
Sally