On Sat, 26 Jan 2008 13:34:23 -0600, you wrote:
i know what you mean about ponies tho. shetlands seem almost like
minis to me
I think the US version of a Shetland is vastly different to the UK
version, though - at least, all the pictures I've seen on the web are.
UK Shetlands look like small
On Sat, 26 Jan 2008 13:37:59 -0600, you wrote:
if you go by that tho then welsh ponies arent ponies :)
that's exactly what I said in a previous email. Welsh sec As often
look like mini-Arabs (but then there was a fair amount of Arab blood
introduced to improve the breed not so long ago, so I
Good idea and done, but I don't have any problem understanding intelectually
where on the spectrum of movement each gait lies. I have have trouble
distinguishing between fox trot, rack (tolt) and stepping pace when watching
a video. I have learned to feel the difference on my primary riding
On Sat, 26 Jan 2008 10:00:24 -0500, you wrote:
There simply aren't many 14H+ Icelandics! Robyn had a
couple that probably were over14H, and I've seen another one or two,
There are quite a few over here, many of them from the line of Stefnir
fra Sandholaferju who seems to throw a lot of big
that's exactly what I said in a previous email. Welsh sec As often
look like mini-Arabs (but then there was a fair amount of Arab blood
introduced to improve the breed not so long ago, so I guess it's not
surprising!)
I agree. And the temperment of the one I owned was closer to that of an
Arab
On 27/01/2008, Nancy Sturm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I agree. And the temperment of the one I owned was closer to that of an
Arab than that of a child's pony.
I would have to say the same is true of our Peppy (miniature). He
isn't a child's pony at all. But people tend to make the assumption
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Maybe the big ones cost more on the plane to the USA? ; ))
Yeah, sure, right, must be. Uh huh.
It's not like height inflation is unique to Icelandic's. I can't count
the number of 16+ H hunter prospects we went to see that were barely 15H -
if that. It's just when we're talking about a
I agree. And the temperment of the one I owned was closer to that of an
Arab than that of a child's pony.
I would have to say the same is true of our Peppy (miniature). He
isn't a child's pony at all. But people tend to make the assumption
that because he's small he would make a great
That is such a pretty saddle. Is it comfortable?
Lorraine
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On Jan 27, 2008 11:35 AM, Lorraine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
That is such a pretty saddle. Is it comfortable?
Lorraine
it is to die for comofortable. It is a sensation hybrid with a safety
orange and reflector edge chameleon package. I am gonna get some
safety orange polo wraps from jeffers
It's great. I'm glad you got it. Are you feeling any better?
Raining here too. We rode 14 miles yesterday, so I'm giving Hunter a couple
of days off, a good chance to do indoor stuff.
Nancy
Here I am leaning over a cement embankment saving Janice's life after
she inadvertently slipped into our icy waters.
http://2redroses.com/Fun/Best2002/Polar%20Bear%20Swim.jpg
Wanda
On 27/01/2008, Karen Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Here's a what gait shot, and it should be an easy one. I'll say after I get
a few guesses.
Flat walk?
Wanda
On Sun, 27 Jan 2008 12:41:38 -0600, you wrote:
hahahaha! Here is a picture of me with wanda's dog after she sent it
down here to thaw out.
Frozen? Looks more like it's made out of chocolate! I reckon this is
Janice's sneaky way of hiding her that-time-of-the-month-sod-the-diet
treat.
Mic
Mic
On Sat, 26 Jan 2008 11:53:37 -0500, you wrote:
can you guess the size of each?
No, not really, but they look pretty well matched.
Mic
Mic (Michelle) Rushen
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Solva Icelandic Horses and
--- In IceHorses@yahoogroups.com, Raven [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Tom Voiss of Saddle Creek Ranch in Paso Robles. He and his wife are
not well, up there in years and want to give All of their horses
away for Free to good homes only. These are registered purebred
Peruvian Paso's and a once in a
This one? If so, the woman is about 5'9 (she's Gudmar's mum)
Well, that's 69 which computes to the woman being 17.2 at the top of her
head. How much below the level of her head are the horse's withers?
Nancy
If you don't know Walter Feldmann who is one of the biggest people in
Icelandic Horse riding,
Yes. we have a tradition to ride these horses. You don't.
Yvonne, do you see any problems with Feldmann, how he trains, rides, or
instructs people on how to ride Icelandics?
In the videos, did
Found this formula on a horse site:
Measuring a horses cannon bone is used by some in determining the
approximate weight a horse can carry. A measurement is taken around the
circumference of the foreleg, just below the knee. Add together the weight
of the horse plus the rider and tack, and
Yes, Mufassa is very large. Gudmar had him at the KY Show and he is HUGE!!
His shoe size is a 2. They did a comparison to another Icelandic, Gaefa who
was 13.0 hands, just for fun.
went on a short trail ride today, short because my girl was not to interested
in following and she wanted to leap down hills or run them. I didn't let her
and it made her angry and she would crow hop or buck. Neither was that bad
because I put the western treed saddle on to ride and it
Well, that's 69 which computes to the woman being 17.2 at
the top of her head. How much below the level of her head
are the horse's withers?
Actually it's 17.1 hands. And I doubt she's barefoot so you can likely add
and inch putting her at about 70.
5.3 hands is 63 so a differnce of approx.
In a message dated 1/26/2008 8:17:15 PM Pacific Standard Time,
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Me too, I open all the email with attachments. That is so I don't miss
anything fun. But now and then I miss something and you guys go on talking and
I
have no clue so I go
Flat walk?
Close - plain, old, ordinary walk.
Karen Thomas, NC
On 27/01/2008, Karen Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Flat walk?
Close - plain, old, ordinary walk.
So the difference would be in how exaggerated the head nod was?? In
Lee's book the foot falls look identical.
Wanda
. I am not sure if I should be letting her go faster on the flat and then
slowing her on the turns and hills. I don't know if forcing her to go slow
is going to create more problems. Like head tossing, etc.
Do you have hills?
There's no flat ground here and we take advantage of that with
So the difference would be in how exaggerated the head nod was?? In Lee's
book the foot falls look identical.
I guess I'd say that the head nod is usually deeper/ more pronounced with a
flat walk than with a regular walk. Because of the length and set of Runa's
neck, however, her head nod
Yes, Mufassa is very large. Gudmar had him at the KY Show and he is
HUGE!! His shoe size is a 2. They did a comparison to another Icelandic,
Gaefa who was 13.0 hands, just for fun.
Assume for a minute then that he really is 15H+...and I've seen SO many
Icelandic's touted about 3-4 taller
Karen O'Connor, a former Olympian, has been wowing the eventing world by
riding a pony named Teddy. Teddy is just over 14.1H, but under 14.2H so
he meets the show definition of pony.
http://oconnoreventteam.com/new/index.html
Anyone know how tall Karen O'Connor is? I don't think she's
looks like a slow dog walk to me...
went on a short trail ride today, short because my girl was not to
interested in following and she wanted to leap down hills or run them.
I didn't let her and it made her angry and she would crow hop or buck.
Neither was that bad because I put the western treed saddle on to ride
and it
On Jan 27, 2008 3:14 PM, Jeannette Hoenig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am not sure if I should be letting her go faster on the flat and
then slowing her on the turns and hills. I don't know if forcing her
to go slow is going to create more problems. Like head tossing, etc.
i have a goey horse that
Is this the person that the USIHC is bringing in to teach Americans how to
ride Icelandics?
yes.
janice
--
courage is being scared to death...and saddling up anyway--John Wayne
i thought RW too. She has a very nice sweeping back legs motion.
very VERY nice. today i rode Jas and he did a jog! I swear to
goodness. i know it wasnt a pace. no side to side movement, just a
gentle trot so soft my rear did not leave the saddle. i cant put my
finger on it and dont know if
On Jan 27, 2008, at 1:14 PM, Judy Ryder wrote:
Found this formula on a horse site:
Measuring a horses cannon bone is used by some in determining the
approximate weight a horse can carry. A measurement is taken around the
circumference of the foreleg, just below the knee. Add together the
Measuring a horses cannon bone is used by some in determining the
approximate weight a horse can carry. A measurement is taken around the
circumference of the foreleg, just below the knee. Add together the weight
of the horse plus the rider and tack, and divide this sum by the cannon bone
http://www.tomvoiss.com/saddlecreek/links.htm
Just out of curiousity, where did this info come from? I checked out
the link and it does not seem to work. I passed this on to some of
contacts who have Peruvians and they had some questions.
The link works now (their server might have been
I remember shetlands when I was a kid. They weren't much smaller than
Icelandics. I started raising Icelandics about the time the bottom
fell out of the shetland pony market, about the time most Americans
were realizing that it was a rare small child who could ride such a
complicated, rascally
Teddy is just over 14.1H, but under 14.2H so
he meets the show definition of pony.
What a gorgeous pony. I used to belong to a club that put on what became a
prestigious combined training event at Lily Glen in Oregon. I rode parts of
the course, but never actually completed. I was one
Here's an old photo (A little fuzzy) of Moony's Mine at Lily Glen. I had
purchased him off the track and later sold him. At the time this picture
was taken, he was competing very successfully under another name, which I
can't remember.
Nancy
attachment: horses two.jpg
On 27/01/2008, Karen Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I guess I'd say that the head nod is usually deeper/ more pronounced with a
flat walk than with a regular walk.
On Friday when I went out to feed, Solon came gaiting in. Honestly
lately he's been taking my breath away. He's such a nice
Ohmigosh. She is so cute. She appears to have a good poker face too.
Nancy
Assuming those two diagonal feet hit the ground at the same time ...
trot?
This is a little tricky I guess because it's not a soft gait. It's
canter. To be a trot, there would have to be some pairing between both
diagonal pairs, but a canter is neither lateral or diagonal exactly - it's
I was wishing I had my camera with me that day, because I would have
loved a video of it. From his tail set it looked more 'racky' but he
didn't sustain it long enough for me to study it.
When Janice visited here with Stonewall, I took a little video of him. I
would have sworn that he
i thought RW too. She has a very nice sweeping back legs motion. very
VERY nice.
Thanks. I think so.
today i rode Jas and he did a jog! I swear to goodness. i know it
wasnt a pace. no side to side movement, just a gentle trot so soft my
rear did not leave the saddle. i cant put my
The link works now (their server might have been down -- we've had
hurricane force wind gusts and lots of rain last night in this part
of
California). But the original posting
(http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/SoCalGaitedRiders/message/11743)
didn't say they were all free, although I'm
When I went looking for a pony last year, I found Jakey. He was
being kept for a women for free given that he could be used in
lessons. This adorible 13'3 bay gelding was to die for. I asked why
I had not seen him in our lessons. The woman laugh and said the
first time a child was put up
--- In IceHorses@yahoogroups.com, Karen Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've seen several Icelandic's in the USA who were touted to be 14.2-
15H - I
even got a chance to measure a couple of them. I feel sure that
one is
legitimately 14.1H - a genuinely big Icelandic, probably the
biggest I've
In a message dated 1/27/2008 5:28:25 PM Pacific Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Karen, I think my pony is 12.5 maybe a little bigger now. He is stout so I
really don't know what he weighs I would think about eight hundred or so
pounds. I am 125 lbs and my saddle weighs maybe 18
Sorry to tag on, but power has been spotty all day...RAIN, RAIN GO
AWAY...PLEASE We had 3.5 of rain from 7pm Sat to 7am Sunday with winds
so high my breezway stall mats blew into the yard. Still raining with
another 1.5 from 7am -now. This brings our rain totals to about 12 since
I spoke with Tom Bev today they placed all their horses to one home
already. Very nice people who did their best to ensure a wonderful future
for their beloved equine companions.
Kaaren
Yes, Mufassa is definitely over 15 hands. I will see if I can get a picture
of the comparison with Gaefa. No, I don't particularly want an Icelandic
that big. I actually felt very sorry for him at the show. Everyone made a
spectacle out of him.
Teaching Charm to talk has been on the list of Things To Do for a while.
The other day we had a chance to start on this project:
http://iceryder.net/videoclickercharmtalk.html
Judy
http://iceryder.net
http://clickryder.com
This is totally off topic, but...what an amazing wonderful story.
Christian - the lion who lived in my London living room
http://tinyurl.com/create.php
Raven
Lucy Molly, the Girl Doggies
Huginn Dixie Chick, the Back Behind the Barn Ponies
Maggie Rose, the cat who makes me sneeze
Hey, Raven~ I have a broken link on my computer...what are we supposed to
enter?
Mary Dudley, LVT
Just Dream It
Fandango Ranch
Since we're in the throws of a blizzard right now, or at least one is
beginning to howl around us I'm looking at pictures from last
spring.
This is a video I took of Kevin flying his remote-controlled
helicopter out over the
horses. Gusti and Solon are especially interested. Elska and Kria
Sorry about that, here is he correct link.
Christian - the lion who lived in my London living room
http://tinyurl.com/35c2r2
is this a plain trot? That is what it looks like it would feel under saddle.
My friend Joe will soon release an awesome book!! The Soul of the
Horse, by Joe Camp. I've been lucky enough to read this parts of
this book as Joe was writing it and it's a wonderful book. It's a
book you will not want to put down.
For those of you who do not know who Joe is, he wrote all
Renee, did you spend some time talking to Gudmar about who he brought Mufassa
over here for? Is there a plan for him or is he something that Gudmar wanted to
keep for himself?
All PP horses have been taken.
Raven
Lucy Molly, the Girl Doggies
Huginn Dixie Chick, the Back Behind the Barn Ponies
Maggie Rose, the cat who makes me sneeze
http://www.myspace.com/iceponygoddess
Respect ALL Earthlings. We are all animals of this planet. We are all creatures.
Thanks Janice, I don't use the wonder bit anymore either, never did on her even
when I had it. I started her with a side pull and went to a sidepull with a
stainless steel broken bit but it was so big in her mouth I didn't like it and
she played with it too much to get her to hear my signals.
Judy, who is Lin, and where is she located. I have a friend in search of a
trained pony for her short husband and she is wanting something that looks like
Barney. Could you hook us up?
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