Cowgirl Tink said:
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SUCCESSFUL THREADJACKING IN PROGRESS... ( On my own thread none the less!)
That's what Lori was saying, which brings up something, Lori may be out with a friend of hers to go trail riding and she may use Chance while she puts her less then horse sensing friend on Art since he's less likely to start something on the trail with an inexperienced rider. So if you go out and see Loris trailer there but no Art or Chance don't freak out, She's got permission, especially since I can't go ride him myself.
She was out last weekend. Had herself on Darla, and Justin (
another Justin???) on Art. Apparently Art behaved himself for Justin; other than he (Art) refused to keep up with Lori/Dar-Dar on the sandhills!
If possible I'd love to get some pics of Dutch, Rascal, and Chance out in turnout.
Ditto - wish Jessie would find my camera.
Has Matt been riding on his own in the arena at all? I know he really likes riding with others but if he starts doing it on his own let me know and I 'll see if Lori could gets some pics of it for me.
I'll answer that next--->
EDIT: OH Yea BTW Hows Dutch for less then experienced riders? About the same as Rascal or what? Just trying to figure out which horse I'll be borrowing whenever I finally get to come home. Waiting on the 82nds schedule as far as leave goes so I know when for sure I can bring somebody home since I kinda owe him after both his mom and grandma offered to show me the baby pics...
Trish
Last weekend, Chance was being his normal PITA self while your Mom was trying to pony him around with Matt on a bareback pad. First, he tried to bite Rascal repeatedly 'til Rascal removed a
small (1"x1/2") patch of Chance's hide in retaliation. (Cut-Away and furesin fixed him up). Dancing and crow hopping amongst the two, and both your mother and Matt stayed on.
Then I took over pony-ing them; and Chance went after Dutch, who's such a total wimp.
I finally put Matt on Dutch and drug Chance back to the stalls (which is what he wanted). Stripped off the pad, saddled him up with your Dale Chavez (you don't have to worry about me stealing
that saddle from you - I like my rope saddle); bitted him with the twisted wire and threw the tie-down on for good measure. All of which was
definitely not what he wanted!
While Chance and I were "in school"; Matt spent an hour or two on Dutch -total self-control, your mother wasn't even in the arena much of the time. Life is good. Dutch tries to do anything you ask of him; and so far, an inexperienced well-meaning rider is easier for him than being entertainment at the PO's drinking parties.
So, yeah, Dutch is okay with an inexperienced rider. Other than he's neck-rein only. If you tuck in a leg to turn him, he just thinks you forgot the other one - and squeeze or tap means speed up -NOW!
Gotta go, I'm on a short break from the workday.
WE NOW RETURN YOU TO YOUR REGULARLY SCHEDULED THREAD....
Or not