On 4/24/07, Ann Cassidy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When I cantered Tivar I always felt like I was on a big horse, he has a > powerful canter at least compared to my others. Djangi has a slow, rocking > horse canter and Glefsa and Vina are very smooth too but not as "rocking". I > have not cantered Surtsey my 4 year old yet but Mandy has and says she does > NOT have her grandfather's (lettir) smooth rocking horse canter. > > Ann >
yes very very powerful, and compared to his very laid back meandering sorta energy level even at a trot it just startled me. Almost as powerful as when say, a horse is lungeing fast up a hill. It was very reaching in the front end. Well now I know the answer :) Since he is the only cantering icelandic i've ever ridden now I know they are all different. Nasi does this burst thing in the field. just starts off at a nice scamper and then has these sudden bursts like an electrical discharge and then just as suddenly is calm again. THAT would not be fun under saddle! Let us hope these energy bursts level out in the next couple of years :) Gosh I cant imagine how a gallop would feel on Tivar! No wonder people who've experienced an icelandic bolt are traumatized :) But any bolt is that way I guess! I have experienced bolt on Stonewall and even jaspar but it was a sorta controlled bolt in that they bolted because others did, but jaspar soon realized hey, the energy expended wasn't worth it and stonewall after the initial runaway would either listen when I reined or the other horse would be under control so he would also. A deer once leaped out right in front of me and about ten riders and I think if the lead horse had run a hundred miles jaspar would have also but he stopped when that horse did. I think its like leslie desmond says, your horse needs to know you can handle it if he ever has to get outa there in a hurry and you need to be able to handle it. As long as they take off that fast straight forward I'm ok but I swear when jaspar was a greenie he could bolt sideways at least 20 feet in one burst. And I could hit the ground really fast then too! also, I have twice been swarmed by yellowjackets and while people would actually try and stop their horses to scream and swat and flail (how stupid is that, just giving the bees more time to coat you head to toe!) I just let Jaspar GO and he took us away. I just hung on. But he didnt gallop I would say it was a fast fast canter and he was in full control, not in panic mode, and I was just hanging on. better than those who got bucked off and like one girl said to me one time "is there something on my back?" and I thought wow, what a prety bright yellow tank top. and it was yellow jackets. When Jaspar sped by her she was trying to STOP her horse while it crow hopped and reared. jeez janice -- yipie tie yie yo
