Re: hippotherapy

1999-06-18 Thread Jean Gayle
This message is from: "Jean Gayle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hi Ann, Just wanted to comment about therapeutic riding as I have no idea what the hippois. I have a friend who has a Down's syndrome daughter and they started her early on their own horses. She became an accomplished barrel rider and on

Re: FJord picture in HORSE ILLUSTRATED

1999-06-18 Thread Karen McCarthy
This message is from: Karen McCarthy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ! It makes me furious! Why couldn't they at least put a title on the nice big picture telling everybody who it was and that it was a Fjord? I am going to e-mail a letter to Horse Illustrated when I get done with this message.

Re: Pacific Northwest Fjord Promotional Group Meeting

1999-06-18 Thread James Rollins
This message is from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (James Rollins) Just another reminder to all fjord folks out there in cyberland that our meeting will be held tomorrow night at the Apex Mountain Guest Ranch in Penticton, BC. The dinner will start at 5:30 with the meeting to follow. All are welcome

Re: hippotherapy

1999-06-18 Thread Northhorse
This message is from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello Ann, There is a difference, but both are really beneficial. With Hippotherapy, we've had the therapist do things like round the world (starting facing the front, then the side, then backwards, then other side, then facing the front. Things like kn

Re: personality+ and Juniper

1999-06-18 Thread Northhorse
This message is from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In a message dated 6/18/99 10:32:16 Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: << He just refuses to move until he is asked politely and correctly. Love him to pieces. He sounds so much like Pamela's Juniper, a real trooper! >> Yep. Sounds like

hippotherapy

1999-06-18 Thread Mark and Ann Restad
This message is from: Mark and Ann Restad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hello, I have been interested in the recent comments on hippotherapy. I only recently learned that there was a difference between hippotherapy and therapeutic riding. My son was born this March with Down Syndrome. I would like to

personality+ and Juniper

1999-06-18 Thread Ingrid Ivic
This message is from: Ingrid Ivic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I wonder if a mare > is better in this situation or if it is just the personality of the horse? > Hi Jean, ...definately personality and individual makeup! Our little old man, Bas (a gelding) takes the silliness of first time riders in

Re: bears, parades, hippotherapy etc

1999-06-18 Thread WhipsNSpur
This message is from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In a message dated 6/17/99 4:30:04 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I wonder if a mare > is better in this situation or if it is just the personality of the horse? Baldur, my gelding, is my sole school horse right now. He is patient

Re: FJord picture in HORSE ILLUSTRATED

1999-06-18 Thread OLSENELAIN
This message is from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jean, I picked up the July Horse Illustrated magazine one evening and starting thumbing through it only to find a picture of myself on my Fjord gelding, Rollo, much to my surprise. The photo was taken at a dressage competition near Los Angeles over a yea

Re: Equitana

1999-06-18 Thread Starfire Farm, LLC
This message is from: "Starfire Farm, LLC" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Good job and thank you to everyone at Equitana. It takes a lot of exhausting behind the scenes effort to pull something like that off with a professional flair. Congratulations to you all! We will all benifit. Thank you, again. Be

Re: FJord picture in HORSE ILLUSTRATED

1999-06-18 Thread Bushnell's
This message is from: "Bushnell's" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I'm still wondering about their July 1996 edition in which they feature a CENTERFOLD of a Fjord. A couple of folks gave us copies knowing we'd like it and I have one up where I see it every day..."who is he?" I ask, does anyone recall? I app

FJord picture in HORSE ILLUSTRATED

1999-06-18 Thread Jean Ernest
This message is from: Jean Ernest <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I jut picked up the July issue of HORSE ILLUSTRATED to find an article entitled "Dressage: Not Just for Warmbloods" and there was a full page picture of a Fjord doing Dressage! But NO CAPTION! Nothing to mention who the horse and rider were, o