This message is from: Lori Albrough <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Pasqual, Patricia A wrote:
Our weather here in Minnesota is definitely getting wintery, so those of you
who can keep on doing your regular training please keep us posted on how your
work is going so we can live vicariously!
Hi Tish,
We haven't had too much wintery stuff yet (touch wood!), mostly rain and mud
which is discouraging in its own way. I do have a thrill I can share with
you, though, to enliven your vicarious life!
Recently we started our young mare Peregrine, who is now 3 and a half, under
saddle. She's been going for about two months, and as she is still young I
just do about 15 to 20 minutes four days a week. She needs to build up
condition and like all young horses, she tires easily. If I don't ask for
the canter early in the ride, I know she may be too pooped to give it to me.
She has lots of 'go-juice' but just gets tired so I'm careful not to go for
too long just yet.
Anyhow, I can't believe how lucky I am to have such a wonderful horse to
ride!!!! The gaits on this young mare are just SO nice. When my coach saw
her she said 'that horse has remarkable freedom in her shoulders' (that
means remarkable for any breed, not just Fjords) and she is so right, the
things Peregrine can do with her body and the freedom in her front end just
amaze me. The hind end is equally wonderful with an active hind leg that
just won't quit. Her hind polos never even get dirty because of the way she
brings her hind legs up off the ground and under her body. The feeling I get
from her in the trot is something that you can work for years to get on
another horse. What a thrill!! Lucky me!! Just had to share...
Peregrine is our first Felix offspring who is old enough to start riding.
She is out of Rjelgrimm, our Myrstein daughter, who is half-sister to Anne
Sullivan's mare Reina who she talked about recently on the list, these two
mares were imported from Holland in the same group by Carol R.
Lori
Lori Albrough
Bluebird Lane Fjords
Moorefield, Ontario
http://www.bluebirdlane.com
