A good trainer will ride the horse-of-the-moment, and will make
adjustments as needed...without worrying
> what the breed is.
Well said, Karen, well said!
For the record. the second best trotting horse I ever owned was a 16 h
off-track appendix quarter horse. The best ever was a 15.3 h Thor
On Fri, Feb 01, 2008 at 07:04:36AM -0500, Karen Thomas wrote:
> No, when someone says they have to have a "special trainer" for an Icelandic
> pony, I immediately wonder how much REAL horse experience that person
> has...it's usually not much.
>
>
> Isn't it sad that some people are swayed by for
Isn't it amazing that he would be brought in by the USIHC to teach
here? I mean, use plain old common sense in watching his horses and riders
ride, and anyone can see the unnaturalness of it.
And isn't it just amazing that people think that you have to have "special"
trainers to train Icela
So, how did we get to the point of having trainers strong-arm the
Icelandic Horses into gaits?
Machismo? After all, the Icelandic show world is still dominated by men.
I guess "real men" (said with much sarcasm) don't like to admit that they
are riding sweet, gentle, easy-going, easy-to-tra
> Walter Jr is the trainer coming to teach the trainers course in the US
> which
> is why his name has come up on this list recently. He is extremely
> demanding of horses and IMO quite hard on them,
>>>horses that had to be trained via strong-armed tactics
This is really sad for the breed.
> rather than polite, used to have the reputation for some rather dodgy
> shoeing practices on competition horses, developed his own horse breed
> sells lots of horses, makes training videos, writes
> books, gives lots of courses etc etc etc. Not thought well of
> generally on this list due to his
