This message is from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Arthur Rivoire)
>Hello from Carol Rivoire at Beaver Dam Farm in Nova Scotia - Kathy Koshman from Misty Meadows wrote: >Quad'l's Drey and Lyn carried on with their pony club events through the summer and Lyn has earned the right to stop >her responsibilities as a pony club horse:>:>: She absolutely hated jumping the solid fences in the cross country >events and was being pushed too fast. She used the cleverest evasive techniques I have ever seen. One day, she was >fourth in a line of six riders to do the course - everyone trotted toward a circular wooden bridge over a stream - >the first three riders on their warmbloods ended up in a mess as their horses refused to go near the awful structure. >Lyn looked neither left nor right, just trotted over. After cantering around a field, they were to jump the stream on >the way back about forty yards away the bridge. Those warmbloods lept across like gazelles. Lyn cantered in with a >nice straight approach. At the last minute, you could see her brain thinking: "No, wait, I don't have to do this, >there is a bridge upstream- I know this - those horses are idiots!!" She did an instant sidepass to the bridge, >crossed over it and stopped very pleased with herself. Thanks Kathy! That story cracked me up, and I still can't stop laughing. Arthur said, "That's exactly what Tessa would do." Regards, Carol Carol and Arthur Rivoire Beaver Dam Farm Fjords II R.R. 7 Pomquet Antigonish County Nova Scotia B2G 2L4 902 386 2304 http://www3.ns.sympatico.ca/beaverdf
