This message is from: "Reena Giola" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Gustav has a nice trot...smooth, easy to sit.....
I would have to agree with the statement below about the trot, very true!! I had a welsh mare who if you ever tried to sit the trot on your teeth were clicked together....it was horrible...BUT once we started into our dressage lessons, got her nicely rounded etc, she had a nice trot to sit. Now on the other had I think if you're doing western pleasure and doing a jog....well that is an extremely slow gait, so I think it could be comfortable on most any horse....but if you're doing an English 'trot' well that is another story.... Greenbroke: To me it means 'basically knows nothing' ...not necessarily a baby/yearling but a horse that is of an age to be ridden.....may have had a saddle on, ridden around by some one with experience but by no means is trained and should only be ridden/worked with by someone who is experienced. Beginner riders should not be looking at this horse for themselves unless they plan on having said horse put into training. Case in point. bought a lovely quarter horse gelding, 3years old. had been told he had been ridden by 4 H club etc., went and rode him, did ok with him (was in a big roping arena) and we could trot, canter...walk, stop. Well didn't realize that he had no steering till I got him in a dressage arena.......YIKES........so he was 'broke' to the saddle end, and we could do stuff, but he still wasn't 'broke enough' for me and I consider him 'greenbroke' yet the sellers certainly didn't. Big difference riding in a roping arena and a dressage arena!! ended up have a trainer work with him and he turned out nicely, but that is the horse I never bonded with and the one I sold so I could get Gustav..... Reena This message is from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: rough trot and green broke. I think some of you have hit the nail on the head. I have been taking dressage lessons for almost 3 years and I have learned that if the horse does not relax his jaw and bend at the pole, which causes him to raise his back up, you will get a rough ride, no matter what the breed. As far as a green broke horse, to me it means the horse has been tacked up and an experienced rider has been on his back and walked around without being bucked off or the horse running away with him or her. Anything beyond that is a bonus and perhaps a false assumption. Onna
