Re: [IceHorses] Tosca - short question/long answer

2007-12-27 Thread Nancy Sturm
I guess I'd like to ask Nancy what she sees in these videos. Well - there's a question I have been pondering myself. And my answer really doesn't have much to do with the photos. Tosca seems to have about the range of gaits that Hunter has, which works really well for what I do. We

Re: [IceHorses] Tosca - short question/long answer

2007-12-27 Thread Janice McDonald
i wish you had a horse like my jas... he will pony ride ridiculous unbalanced children all day very happily. if one slipped way to the side he would simply stop. I let a downs syndrome girl ride him one day in the arena, she kept laughing and slapping his withers and would suddenly with no

Re: [IceHorses] Tosca - short question/long answer

2007-12-27 Thread Penelope Hodge
What concerns me is that Tosca can be a little grumpy - bucked when we put Stephanie up on her. Hi Nancy... I haven't been following all the posts lately (having been run over by Christmas, extra ER shifts and building a new house - egads) but How long have these two mares been

Re: [IceHorses] Tosca - short question/long answer

2007-12-27 Thread Nancy Sturm
Maybe you have done all this? But if Tosca was grumpy when Steph was on her - bucking - are you sure that Tosca wasn't just unused to the feel of an uncoordinated rider? and frightened/nervous about it? She may have been getting a lot of conflicting signals all at once and was overwhelmed

Re: [IceHorses] Tosca - short question/long answer

2007-12-27 Thread Nancy Sturm
Maybe you have done all this? But if Tosca was grumpy when Steph was on her - bucking - are you sure that Tosca wasn't just unused to the feel of an uncoordinated rider? and frightened/nervous about it? She may have been getting a lot of conflicting signals all at once and was

Re: [IceHorses] Tosca - short question/long answer

2007-12-27 Thread Debbie K.
Nancy, it sounds like Tosca needs some approach and retreat, have the rider move back, then forward before she reacts, watching for relaxation before moving the rider back further... Funny story, Dan and I went looking for a mule for Tatum to ride, about 9 years ago... it was winter, we went up

RE: [IceHorses] Tosca - short question/long answer

2007-12-27 Thread Karen Thomas
i wish you had a horse like my jas... he will pony ride ridiculous unbalanced children all day very happily. I think Jaspar is a lot like my Big Mac was - a very gentle, old-soul kind of horse. But, even Jaspar and Mac weren't born with a world of experience - while their good natures

Re: [IceHorses] Tosca - short question/long answer

2007-12-27 Thread Nancy Sturm
Nancy, is this a decision you have to make now? No, it is not and the plan is to just continue with the training of both mares, enjoying the process and the ponies and seeing where we end up. The actual fact is that we have the extremely phlegmatic Twist who is as close to bomb proof as a

RE: [IceHorses] Tosca - short question/long answer

2007-12-27 Thread Karen Thomas
No, it is not and the plan is to just continue with the training of both mares, enjoying the process and the ponies and seeing where we end up. The actual fact is that we have the extremely phlegmatic Twist who is as close to bomb proof as a horse will ever get and is looking for a job.

Re: [IceHorses] Tosca - short question/long answer

2007-12-27 Thread Janice McDonald
yes, lots to consider. I dont even think Jaspar would be a good little kids horse. he would be a great lead line pony ride horse, but any time I have let someone ride him who was real inexperienced and took a real passenger non-riding role, he just immediately went oh, I'm free and walked over

RE: [IceHorses] Tosca - short question/long answer

2007-12-27 Thread Karen Thomas
yes, lots to consider. I dont even think Jaspar would be a good little kids horse. he would be a great lead line pony ride horse, but any time I have let someone ride him who was real inexperienced and took a real passenger non-riding role, he just immediately went oh, I'm free and walked