This message is from: "Dave McWethy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Hey, Susan Cook, nice to know you're on here.
I wasn't suggesting anyone call their Fjord a horse or pony, Phil. My point
is more that you are absolutely correct to call them either.
What I came to think was that there need to be no anxiety about not being a
horse, except in the artificial world of competition (where a horse breed
like arab or morgan can be called "pony", if pony height), since all ponies
are horses.
The problem in the case of Fjords is that the general horse world doesn't
know what to think of them. Much of the country, believe me, doesn't know
what to think of anything that isn't a quarterhorse or a Belgian.
So here we come with something which might be a pony, but is a bigger horse
than a 750 pound 15 hand arab, can do as much work in a day as a 2,000 pound
Belgian (a bold claim, I know, but I have been told a Fjord can pull 80% of
the load of a Belgian, and they have to be 20% faster.), and have all the
health and durability of a pony breed. Why should we expect this makes
sense to people who don't have them? Why should we care!
