This message is from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In a message dated 11/8/01 10:07:11 AM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> Since this was a "schooling show" we expected lots of kids and a relaxed > atmosphere. NOT. The competitors looked so stiff and nervous, they would > shatter if you touched them. The horse's gaits were something else... Walk > was ok, but with head tucked between knees. The horse who won all the > walk-jog classes had basically learned how to walk in 2 beats. And the > lope, > ugh, I don't even want to go there! Dagrun joked that we could teach our > Fjords how to do this gait by making them trot really slow, and laming one > of > First, it's nice to see your posts. For the longest time your posts never came through to me! A lot of the QH people really do NOT like the peanut rolling anymore. Look to Foundation Quarter Horse shows if you want to see a QH as it should be. Too many fads in the AQHA shows, such as the beefy bodies, little feet, breeding HYPP positive horses just to win a halter class. Go figure. Anyway, I'm surprised they're still doing the peanut rolling in AQHA shows. I had heard that most people were trying to change that. We have a beautiful QH palomino mare in our herd. She was trained the way you described before we bought her. She's THE most sensitive horse I have ever met, yet she was trained and ridden with long shanked bits and spurs. We've been working hard to get her trust, and finally are succeeding. She was so proud when I first got on her, she dropped her head, did the little teeny tiny step thing to show me what she could do. I was almost in tears. Now, with our classical dressage trainer, and years of undoing the initial damage, we have a horse that has a BEAUTIFUL carriage, a lovely trot. And a nice canter. She has the finest mouth of any horse I've ever had the pleasure to ride. Pamela
