Re: [IceHorses] Collecting the Head?!?!

2007-11-19 Thread Janice McDonald
On 11/19/07, Mic Rushen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would think whoever translated this had no horse knowledge - or the > person who wrote it didn't speak particularly good English! ; ) haha, for a minute i thought you were referring to my post. Janice -- yipie tie yie yo

Re: [IceHorses] Collecting the Head?!?!

2007-11-19 Thread Mic Rushen
I would think whoever translated this had no horse knowledge - or the person who wrote it didn't speak particularly good English! ; ) Mic Mic (Michelle) Rushen --- Solva Icelandic Horses and DeMe

Re: [IceHorses] Collecting the Head?!?!

2007-11-18 Thread Janice McDonald
walking horse people frequently say to get a pacey horse to gait work uphill and to get a trotty horse to gait work downhill. also deep sand. also chains. weighted shoes or boots on the back for trot, on the front for pace. a tie down to force the nose in. some absorbine jr. on the coronet ban

[IceHorses] Collecting the Head?!?!

2007-11-18 Thread Judy Ryder
A quote from a rider in Iceland: "One of the unusual things about Icelandics is that they are five gaited. In addition to the usual walk, trot and canter, there is also tölt and there is another kind of gallop. It was time to tölt! It is often used for covering downhill stretches, although I don't