--- Judy Ryder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > http://www.marisasano.ca/?p=161 > > Did anyone view this link? What was mentioned about > the Icelandics? > > I saw it, they said:
"And the cute little Icelandic horses (they take offense at being called ponies, though they are all very small). The actorsÂ’ feet hang well below their bellies." I just wondered if it's the horses who take offense at being called "ponies", or their owners? :) This was referring to something shot in Icelandic, so I guess it's the Icelanders who are offended by people calling them "ponies". Yes, don't call them ponies, but they do look an awful lot like ponies, yep it's quite a dilemma, isn't it? Does it seem like more men are involved with riding in Iceland?, or maybe that traditionally men did the riding? I'm not sure. I do believe I see more men riding when I watch videos of high level competitions. Here it is the same, more men actually go trail riding and do showing than women, so the riding scene is a little on the macho side. Crazy rides though the forest, their wives are afraid to go with them! I wonder if they are afraid that if they find out they are riding ponies, it might make them inexplicably start putting little pink bows in the forelocks. I will admit that there might be an image of "pony" that is like that. I think I have expanded my own view of "pony" and I think of it as something more primitive, I think I really appreciate that about Icelandics, I see something primitive and natural in them, and I would like to see that retained. I think I see something else being appreciated in the show world though. It's not so easy to find the qualities I see in my Icelandics in another breed, but I get a little scared when I look around and the horses look to fine, that is not what attracted me to this breed, so I hope, at least that the "old type" (I hate to call it that) will be retained also. Kim
