I just found a really good site for biomechanic equine horse research-
-McPhail Equine Performance Center.
http://www.cvm.msu.edu/research/research-centers/mcphail-equine-
performance-center/copy_of_publications
I just read one article but I wanted to share some nuggets. Since I
have just gone
--- In IceHorses@yahoogroups.com, Karen Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Shoulder-in is actually a moderately
advanced move - NOT something to be taught to casual riders on
unprepared horses
at a day-clinic. And it's certainly not shoulder-in if you jerk
the horses
around to get their bodies
Blessi's biggest drawback is me. I am still learning (will probably
always be learning) so the smooth moves and transitions occur when I
do all my aids, especially my seat, correctly. It used to be that
Blessi would ignore about 50% of my body motion as noise. As I have
become a slightly
Hello All,
Thanks for the great feedback about saddle fit and points to consider
when buying a saddle. This is wonderful information as I move
forward with the search for the perfect saddle (for a round, short
backed horse with a larger rider with short round legs).
Good news--a horse
--- In IceHorses@yahoogroups.com, Renee Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have done things with my horses that I NEVER EVER thought I would
do
when I started riding at the ripe 'ol age of 26. Soley and later
Eitill,
made it all possible.
Hello Renee,
I didn't start riding (other
Hello All,
Over the past few weeks, I have been working with Karen Borne and
Simone Mauhl of Borne Saddlery to talk about a custom saddle for
Blessi. Several owners of hard-to-fit mountain horses have gotten
these saddles and loved them. Karen gave me permission to share this
email from her
--- In IceHorses@yahoogroups.com, Renee Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I think we'd be (are?) welcomed at FOSH events with our
naturally-gaited
Icelandic horses. FOSH may have gotten started to protect
the TWH from abuse in the industry and offer an alternative showing
venue
for
--- In IceHorses@yahoogroups.com, Judy Ryder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Did you happen to take any pictures?
Maybe we should all get helmet cams like Susan's!
I'll try to remember my camera next time. We should be going back in a
few weeks. Some additional people at the stable want to go too so
Yesterday, Blessi and I went on a trail ride with some friends who
ride their horses (a Curly and a Tennessee Walker) in search and
rescue. It was our second 1 1/2 hour trail ride of the season since
we are building up stamina for horse and rider after the winter arena
work. The trail at
--- In IceHorses@yahoogroups.com, Judy Ryder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What type of saddle do you have? Can you send pictures of it on
Blessi?
Hello Judy,
I will have someone at the stable take some pictures when the saddle
comes back from the saddle reflocker. Thanks for the offer. Blessi's
--- In IceHorses@yahoogroups.com, Nancy Sturm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The most wired horses I know are National Showhorses (Arab/Saddlebred
blend)
and they were all raised by the same rather loud man, which I blame
for
their higly nervous edgy temperment.
Nancy
Several years ago, I
--- In IceHorses@yahoogroups.com, Robyn Hood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
For those of you who knew my mother, Marion Hood, she passed away
peacefully
this morning about 6:00 a.m. www.icefarm.com
Hello Robyn,
It was such a pleasure to meet your mother during the clinic last
year. My
--- In IceHorses@yahoogroups.com, Laree Shulman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It's been a tough week in our family.
Hello Laree,
My thoughts and prayers are with you and your family during these tough
times.
Regards, Pamela
--- In IceHorses@yahoogroups.com, Nancy Sturm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I had the most disturbing trail ride this morning. I started out
with a
nice (and timid) older lady on her very pretty Peruvian Paso
gelding. We
started up one trail off the farm, rode along a short section of
--- In IceHorses@yahoogroups.com, Nancy Sturm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Kaaren Jordan said someone on this list has tried a Duett saddle.
Karen?
Someone else? Want to give me your opinion?
Nancy
Hello Nancy,
I have been riding in an a Duett Encore for the past 1 1/2 years. I
had
--- In IceHorses@yahoogroups.com, Judy Ryder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Here are some preliminary tips to help in identifying gaits:
http://iceryder.net/gaitfirstphase.html
Judy,
Thank you so much for pulling this together. I am one of those
people who always guess foxy pacolt for every gait
--- In IceHorses@yahoogroups.com, djakni1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Try to camp with someone who has horse camping experience the first
time you go. I called someone I didn't know well but who I knew did a
lot of horse camping. Now I have made some great friends.
Thanks a lot for the
--- In IceHorses@yahoogroups.com, Nancy Sturm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Pamela,
Are you in the NW? Have I forgotten that?
Hello Nancy,
I live in the Seattle area--across the Puget Sound in the navy town of
Bremerton. I think you are also on the Cascade Icelandic listing.
There is a
Last year, the Evergreen Gaited Horse Show had a diabolical trail
obstacle course with wooden cow cutouts, fake barn, etc. The most
testing challenge was a little yellow tent located right as the horse
and rider entered the arena. Almost all of the horses had problems
with this challenge.
--- In IceHorses@yahoogroups.com, Judy Ryder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This is a video of a Haflinger driving in a CDE:
http://www.teamsam.net/images/katydid.wmv
Wow, I can't even ride through obstacles with this kind of speed and
accuracy. As far as I can see, the carriage did not even
--- In IceHorses@yahoogroups.com, Janice McDonald [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
This report just came out today of a study in France. It shows
imprinting of foals can have a negative effect or no effect,
whereas a
foal witnessing gentle handling of the dam in the foals presence
has a
very
--- In IceHorses@yahoogroups.com, Robyn Hood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi
Will email about this later, my 94 year old mother broke her pelvis on
Sunday and is in lots of failure. We are just praying she will pass
peacefully and quickly.
Robyn
Hello Robin,
So sorry to hear this. My
--- In IceHorses@yahoogroups.com, Nancy Sturm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The worst night I ever spent not sleeping was one night when my tent
was
set up quite close to my daughter's horse. He's an old hand and was
not
afraid of the tent, but he laid down and snored and groaned and
--- In IceHorses@yahoogroups.com, djakni1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This is a good test. I practiced using a highline before my first
camping trip with Deacon, but I did not even think about the tent. I
set him up on the highline with some hay and then set up the tent.
Benches along a
--- In IceHorses@yahoogroups.com, Judy Ryder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Use the clicker. You can always start small. Say you have a big
tent made
from a tarp. Take the tarp, or a similar smaller object, and fold
it up to
a small size.
As the lesson(s) progress, the size of the object can be
The video link below shows a friend of mine Peder Swenson riding
Blessi. I thought everyone might enjoy seeing this. Peder is over 6
feet in height.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zb1bNjrUCv4
Regards, Pamela
--- In IceHorses@yahoogroups.com, Nancy Sturm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The sun came out today and I got both horses ridden, back to back.
Tosca is the pony I never got as a child... -
what a dream!
Nancy
Hello Nancy,
I think you are in the NW also. It was great to get some sun today.
--- In IceHorses@yahoogroups.com, Karen Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
(And there's only one reliable way - on perfectly
flat, level surface, with a stick made for the purpose.)
Can you measure him yourself? I know that a lot of people have been
surprised when they measure their own
--- In IceHorses@yahoogroups.com, Karen Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This is a wonderful breed, and there's no
need to embellish their traits or their histories. I think they are
pretty
darned cool - even sticking to the cold, hard facts. ;)
Karen,
We are in perfect agreement on this
--- 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
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
--- 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 IceHorses@yahoogroups.com, Laree Shulman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
A friend of mine, when she first started hauling a horse trailer,
paid an instructor from a truck driving school to give her two lessons
and they spent a lot of time working on backing the trailer. She said
it was the
--- In IceHorses@yahoogroups.com, Janice McDonald [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
they have this thing you can get from an auto supply store... its a
guide where you stick one thing to your trailer hitch and the other
to your vehicle and you line them up. I never had one tho and I line
up by a
Yesterday was a day of many firsts--the first time I drove a horse
trailer by myself, the first time Blessi and I participated in an
English competition (only my third such competition), the first time
I went to an event all by myself, the first trail competion. Blessi
was awesome--so calm
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For us too, day of many firsts, Willie and I had company and they
brought us
a cart for the pony Tootsie. We went driving and Willie was the
riding horse.
He tried on three saddles and four people. Everyone is pleased with
--- In IceHorses@yahoogroups.com, Janice McDonald [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
That is so cool Pam! I remember the first time i hooked a horse
trailer up by myself in detail, it was such a milestone.
I have to agree with you and Penelope. The hardest part of the day was
dealing with the
--- In IceHorses@yahoogroups.com, Robyn Hood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi all
This is an example of the type of scam that people will try and pull
with
buying a horse with a bogus check and have you send the balance of an
amount
back to them.
Hello All,
I was looking to buy a horse
--- In IceHorses@yahoogroups.com, Robyn Hood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Sylvia - Bragur is a stallion that belongs to Barbara Owens and lives
between Modesto and Vernon.
Last summer, I took a centered riding clinic in Vernon, BC. I had the
priviledge of riding Bragur in some of the classes.
The National Geographic cable channel has started a series of programs
entitled Dog Genius. The program presents a lot of recent,
fascinating research from around the world on how dogs think. For
example, we have seen how when our family dogs approach us they wag
their tails as a sign of
This may have been mentioned in an earlier post, but the last edition
of Gaited Horse Magazine summed up their 10 years of publishing
experience by thanking the influential people who contributed to their
success over the years. Along with Lee Ziegler, and Liz Graves, Judy
was recognized for
--- In IceHorses@yahoogroups.com, Nancy Sturm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Does anyone know about side saddles?
Hello Nancy,
I finally found my copy of Gaited Horse magazine. Here are some quotes
and resources.
People who have never tried riding sidesaddle are often amzaed that
riders can do
What a great painting you did of the boys at Barbara's farm. You are
very
talented.
Thanks for the compliment. Your boys are wonderful subjects--friendly
and beautiful. This definitely says a lot for both their breeding,
training, and treatment. Plus they are so cute!!!
Regards, Pamela
Happy Holidays to Everyone,
I have attached a copy of my holiday greeting card in the Photo section
under 07 Holiday Greetings. I am really enjoying being a member of the
group and learning a lot about Icelandics, plus other interesting
topics.
The card is based on a water color that I did of
--- In IceHorses@yahoogroups.com, Nancy Sturm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Does anyone know about side saddles?
There is a good article in the last edition of Gaited Horse magazine
about side saddles. The article seems to indicate that the modern
sidesaddles provide a lot of balance. If I
--- In IceHorses@yahoogroups.com, Nancy Sturm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thank you Pamela. I'd appreciated that.
I'm confused. I thought Gaited Horse quit publishing. Was it a
different
magazine?
Hello Nancy,
They have quite publishing. However, some stores still have some
copies for
--- In IceHorses@yahoogroups.com, Janice McDonald [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
pamela, you should video svanny giving you a lesson with blessi, like
susan did with andi. that was very nice to be able to watch how
different trainers do things. all we get to see are the pros on tv
and almost none
good luck finding stuff you BOTH find fun!
Well Blessi has found some fun things to do on his own...
Yesterday, I decorated the outside of Blessi's stall with a Christmas
stocking and strings of brightly colored wooden balls. I just used the
Christmas strings to replace some bindertwine that
snaffle, a caveson, and a loose rein, stressing control of the horse
with the rider's balance alone. at my lesson with ebba yesterday,
she
insisted that i need to move my arms more to allow stjarni to canter
with more freedom for his head, and to press on his withers and use
a
completely
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I am not endorsing this nor do I have any idea if it is a good way to
grade dog food but I thought some of you might be interested - I am
sending info about the creator in a minute
Grading Dog Food
This method of
Gunnar is Icelandic and his wife Stephanie is American. We did
briefly discuss horse bolting and not wanting to stop. He said in
Iceland all they want is for them to go and go really fast. A lot of
large farms with really great
competition riders never teach the horse to stop or stand
Pamela...may I ask something, and if you don't want to answer,
that's fine.
Have some people told you that incident was your fault? The reason
I ask,
is that of all the years I've been involved with horses, I've NEVER
seen
such a strong tendency to blame the owner or blame the rider as
and my video was linked to a 'fat ugly horses' website.
Hello Anna,
You are showing a lot of grace under pressure. Personally I would like
to congratulate you in your taste in horses. Chestnuts geldings with
flaxen manes and tails are beautiful. My Blessi looks just like your
--- In IceHorses@yahoogroups.com, Anna Hopkins [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
I got an e-mail from You tube that I had new comments on 'Gloi head
down with clicker' video. When I went to view them I was suprised to
see that my views went from a few hundred to over a thousand and there
were
--- In IceHorses@yahoogroups.com, Lorraine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Have you ever been nervous because the last horse you
owned was spooky? How do you get over it
Lorraine
Hello Lorraine,
Around Xmas 2 years ago, I fell off my Icelandic. The horses had all
been in their stalls with
--- In IceHorses@yahoogroups.com, Lorraine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I get off in traffic sometimes.
Better safe than sorry. People drive fast and don't
care that you are on a live animal. They must not own
horses. After a accident. ( I have had many) it is
hard to get the confidence back.
--- In IceHorses@yahoogroups.com, Lorraine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I get off in traffic sometimes.
Better safe than sorry. People drive fast and don't
care that you are on a live animal. They must not own
horses. After a accident. ( I have had many) it is
hard to get the confidence back. I
--- In IceHorses@yahoogroups.com, Janice McDonald [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
How old is Blessi again? And how long has he been under saddle?
Blessi is 11. I have had him for about 3 years. He is an import
from Iceland so I don't know when he was started--probably around 4
or 5.
I am
A friend rode my horse Blessi yesterday. She and another friend went
to a local multi-use park. They walked the horses the mile and 1/2
since cars and trucks go way too fast on the road to the park.
Today, I asked how Blessi was on the ride. She said Blessi did well
with the baby
I had a lesson on my horse Blessi today. He was in a low energy,
very mellow, but extremely responsive mood. It was such a lovely
lesson as he responded to every indirect rein, shift of weight, etc.
It is amazing how much we have learned in the past year. As a
beginning rider, Blessi used
A question to the group: What additional exercises
can you recommend that we can work on?
You can do the Parelli 7 Games:
http://iceryder.net/7games.html
Blessi is a good boy. Every day I go riding, even when Blessi is not
so responsive ;-) , I thank my lucky stars that I got
Can you get some video for us of Blessi playing the piano, and doing
the Unwind, and other stuff?
We love to watch videos! and get pictures!
Yes, I will work on getting some videos. Thank goodness for cameras
that take videos.
Pamela
Many thanks to all of you who welcomed me to the group. Several people
requested pictures of Blessi. Instead of posting a picture, I am
enclosing a link to a video of him tolting on Youtube. Blessi is being
ridden by someone new to Icelandics so the rider is sitting a little
too far back
Hello All,
My name is Pamela Nolf and I am a new member to the group. I live in
the Bremerton, WA, area (a 1 hour ferry ride almost directly west
across the Puget Sound from Seattle). I moved here from the
Philadelphia area about 1 1/2 years ago. My Icelandic horse is named
Blessi and I
--- In IceHorses@yahoogroups.com, Karen Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Welcome to the list, Pamela! Do you have any pictures of Blessi?
Hello Karen,
Thank you for the warm welome. I have lots of pictures of Blessi. I
was going to forward a copy but I can't figure out how to attach a
You can add them to the file section, or you can attach them to an e-
mail...
Thanks for the tip. I will send a smaller K picture soon.
Regards, Pamela
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