Re: [IceHorses] Showing Ourselves

2008-06-14 Thread Janice McDonald
> > That's because with a few exceptions (Kaaren Jordan comes to mind) most of > us cast quite a nice shadow. at one point yesterday, when stonewall was terrified and in a panic, I saw him headed toward a corridor where I had closed a gate at the end and knew if he went in there full blown it was

Re: [IceHorses] Showing Ourselves

2008-06-14 Thread Nancy Sturm
I don't think the horses care if we have over-sized T-shirts, floppy hats, dusty shoes, sweaty hair. Good grief I sincerely hope not! Most endurance riders wear riding tights. I can't tell you how intimidting it was for me to appear in public in tights. The first season, I bought some lo

Re: [IceHorses] Showing Ourselves

2008-06-14 Thread Judy Ryder
> Thanks Judy!! Its sorta intimidating, for me, not built like a > supermodel or anything, to open myself up to potential ridicule, but > so far no one seems (publicly) critical. I think we're probably mature enough to know that what we're looking for is on the inside of the person, not the outs