This message is from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In a message dated 8/4/99 8:04:48 Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
<< When North America has a system that even comes close to this, then maybe we'll have the right, and the knowledge, to criticize. Until then, I'd advise listening to and learning from Europe. >> No thanks <g>. Personally, I think we've got a good font of knowledge right here in the USA. My ancestors left Europe for good reason. To be allowed to be free thinking. I LOVE Europe and appreciate the past, but there's something to be said for good old fashioned American ingenuity. You have to think out side the box lots of times to make progress. I am reading a lot about where the breed came from, what it was used for, bloodlines, etc. But don't think the Europeans have the corner on good horsemanship. Although I've only owned fjords for the last couple years, I've been involved with horses for a lifetime. I've seen good, sound breeding practices, and seen frivolous. The fjords I've seen in America, while based on European bloodstock, are beautiful, fine, strong examples of solid breeding practices which are taking place right here in the Good Old USA. Also, I like my horses tame and manageable. The only questionable fjords I've seen have been so poorly mannered and downright DANGEROUS I want nothing to do with them. The worst stallion behaviour I've ever seen. Including working on the racetrack with 2 year old tb stallions. The only one that Monty Roberts warned me to be careful with was gentle as a kitten as compared with the fjord stallion in question. My breeding program is towards solid, kind, beautiful and able to work horses, who will give many years of pleasure to myself, or whatever happy soul may buy one from me. Pamela Who is only telling my point of view, not that it's right or wrong for anybody else
