This message is from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In a message dated 7/13/99 7:25:28 Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
<< I am also overweight, but am getting ready to have a trainer teach me to ride! I am very excited, and although I do not weigh close to 300 pounds, I have gotten comments like...you are going to ride? >> I'm not close to 300 pounds either, and hopefully some of the extra poundage will come off with the diet I have my son on (Gluten & Casein free, can do wonders for people with autism). Anyway, there's a formula, somewhere, that says how much weight a horse can carry. Measure the canon bone and multiply? Does anybody know? My husband has some weight to lose also. At 6.2 he's going to be a large rider regardless. He got on the quarter horse a couple weeks ago, and I watched her fetlocks sink. I got him off her REAL quick. Put him on Nikki, at a walk. She wanted to trot, had no problem with him. We're both still dieting anyway <g>. The main concession I make for the horse, since I'm not 118 pounds anymore <!> is using a mounting block. It's so much easier on the horse's back if you don't get on constantly from the ground. Pamela
