Re: [IceHorses] Fox Trot

2007-09-13 Thread Mic Rushen
Does anyone have one? Good lord no, it's a FAULT. Silly woman! ; ) talked with the Icelanders, somewhere in the 70's, they came up with : draf tolt and brokk tolt. Both of which mean - guess what? Trotty tolt. That's limiting, tho, for those Icelandic Horses that are conformed for, and

RE: [IceHorses] Fox Trot

2007-09-13 Thread Karen Thomas
Hmmm, I wonder. John, who sometimes appears on this list, and myself, have tried to get a motion put forward to the delegates assembly calling for the use of drop or flash nosebands with curb bits to be banned in FIPO competition. So far, we are the only ones on the Board of Trustees for the UK

Re: [IceHorses] Fox Trot

2007-09-13 Thread Mic Rushen
On Thu, 13 Sep 2007 05:15:38 -0400, you wrote: We need to involve more people who know more breeds than simply Icelandic's. Trouble is, that's virtually the entire board of the IHS. They have almost all come from big horse backgrounds, and in my opinion should already know better. I think at

Re: [IceHorses] Fox Trot

2007-09-13 Thread Janice McDonald
On 9/13/07, Mic Rushen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I try not to be defeatist, but sometimes it feels like pushing a boulder up a mountain. We have a Board meeting in a couple of weeks - maybe we'll be able to work something out then. Fancy putting together a nice presentation on the evils of

Re: [IceHorses] Fox Trot

2007-09-13 Thread Judy Ryder
Trouble is, that's virtually the entire board of the IHS. They have almost all come from big horse backgrounds, and in my opinion should already know better. I think at the board meeting I will push for FEIF to come into line with the FEI rules for bitting etc Do you think that being a

Re: [IceHorses] Fox Trot

2007-09-13 Thread Mic Rushen
Do you think that being a gaited horse, that the people separate it from regular horses, and think these things are OK for a gaited horse? Possibly. They are not, in general, used to gaited horses. But we even said - is it OK for a 6ft 200lb man to use a 6 inch shanked curb bit with a flash

Re: [IceHorses] Fox Trot

2007-09-12 Thread Judy Ryder
what you call a fox trot they'd just call a trotty tolt and work with as such. But it's not. No, it's not a trotty tolt, it's a fox trot, I would like to see a video of what the icelandic-style trainers believe is a trotty tolt. Does anyone have one? but for an island which does not