Re: [IceHorses] Iceland and Tolkien now National Show Horses

2007-07-01 Thread Maggie Errea Hults
yes-a National Show Horse is an Arab saddlebred cross. they show them in "Park" classes and they can be racking fools. there was an arab stud at Cal Poly Pomona when i was there, that had this amazing rack-Reign On- and some of his cross foals did well. he just seemed to float. attaching phot

Re: [IceHorses] Iceland and Tolkien

2007-07-01 Thread Nancy Sturm
I actually paid $1000 to have a National Show Horse mare shipped from Arizona to Oregon. Sadly, the owner was dying (a youngish woman) and the breeder was trying to place her. I thought she would be a horse my grandson and I could share. I never even sat on her. By the way, this has nothing to

Re: [IceHorses] Iceland and Tolkien

2007-07-01 Thread Janice McDonald
My daughter > rides an endurance horse with a long successful career. He is mostly Arab, > but not registered because there's some Standardbred in there somewhere. > He's an amazing athlete with a good mind and attitude. > > Nancy > What is that breed "National Show Horse" exactly... they are ha

Re: [IceHorses] Iceland and Tolkien

2007-07-01 Thread Nancy Sturm
Isn't that the most amazing thing. I look in the paper and you can see crossbred dogs going for two and three times the cost of purebreds. What are people thinking? I don't have a problem with crossbreds - Tosca is 1/4 Peruvian Paso, but I'm sure not going to pay the same as I would for a purebr

Re: [IceHorses] Iceland and Tolkien

2007-07-01 Thread Janice McDonald
On 6/30/07, Robyn Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > no not mutts! "exotics" like labrapoos and cockadoodles.-- > > Yeah and when those Labradoodles were coming into vogue the prices > were $2000! For a mixed breed! And they were "flying off the shelves" > too! The really weird thing is that

Re: [IceHorses] Iceland and Tolkien

2007-06-30 Thread Robyn Schulze
> no not mutts! "exotics" like labrapoos and cockadoodles.-- Yeah and when those Labradoodles were coming into vogue the prices were $2000! For a mixed breed! And they were "flying off the shelves" too! The really weird thing is that you could buy a purebred Portuguese Water Dog for less than ha

Re: [IceHorses] Iceland and Tolkien

2007-06-30 Thread Janice McDonald
On 6/28/07, Robyn Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > How come in the movie they used Friesians and Andalusians with extra > > hair glued on instead of icelandic horses? > > Cause they're more romantic than little bitty ponies (except for the hobbits). > > Now it seems that crossing Friesians w/

Re: [IceHorses] Iceland and Tolkien

2007-06-28 Thread Robyn Schulze
> How come in the movie they used Friesians and Andalusians with extra > hair glued on instead of icelandic horses? Cause they're more romantic than little bitty ponies (except for the hobbits). Now it seems that crossing Friesians w/ everything under the sun is in vogue. Andalusians too. Pretty

Re: [IceHorses] Iceland and Tolkien

2007-06-28 Thread Janice McDonald
On 6/28/07, Kristen Mikula <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Even without extra hair, Friesians and Andalusians do > look slightly more elegant than Icelandics to the > general movie-watching public. this sounds funny considering it has bilbo baggins and frodo and gollum in there:) janice --

Re: [IceHorses] Iceland and Tolkien

2007-06-28 Thread Maggie Errea Hults
Probably not enough Icelandics in New Zealand...:)

Re: [IceHorses] Iceland and Tolkien

2007-06-28 Thread Kristen Mikula
> > How come in the movie they used Friesians and > Andalusians with extra > hair glued on instead of icelandic horses? > Even without extra hair, Friesians and Andalusians do look slightly more elegant than Icelandics to the general movie-watching public. I love Deacon, but elegant is not a w

[IceHorses] Iceland and Tolkien

2007-06-28 Thread Janice McDonald
I dont know why i thought of this ... but in Lord of The Rings, Tolkien supposedly got the story ideas from icelandic mythology etc. When I googled Tivar's name it came up icelandic for "mountain spirt" etc, "glorious being" then lots of articles about Tolkien basing his ring trilogy, and that "