This message is from: Marsha Jo Hannah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I found this the first time I got on Juniper. [...] asked her to > move forward, and she did. Then she realized rider is nervous. She > thought of me and refused to move. Even when I calmed down some. She > just stopped dead. I was highly embarassed, but laughed. I have a > special needs child, and I WANT a horse that will stop when it > questions the riders true desire. [...] I love this horse. > > Pamela
My gelding, Sleepy, is that way, too. Our instructor was teaching us the emergency dismount---first at the stand, then at the walk. But, whenever I started the motion, Sleepy would helpfully stop! Same with the "pulley rein" for emergency stops. Learning to post was similarly complicated (he had been trained Western)---when I started "bouncing around" at the trot, he'd slow to a walk to "give me an opportunity to regroup". My instructor wanted me to kick him back into the trot, but I value his "taking care of me" more than posting. We compromised on me verbally urging/praising him to continue the trot while I tried to post---he was willing to do it as long as I assured him that was really what I wanted! I do indeed love this aspect of most Fjords. (Particularly since we've got another Fjord that gets spooky when anything goes wrong---he has literally leaped out from under us a couple of times when we got off balance.) Marsha Jo Hannah Murphy must have been a horseman-- [EMAIL PROTECTED] anything that can go wrong, will! 30 mi SSE of San Francisco, Calif. -------
