This message is from: "Beth & Sandy - Starfire Farm" <starfiref...@usa.net>
This message is from: Me Kint <me.k...@yahoo.com> "Question---- how did you know to have these extra people there as a safety net?" Parades with horse knowledge/experience require a certain number of out-walkers per a certain number of horses. As Teressa said, originally we were told (and it was in fact in writing) that one out-walker was required per horse! That seemed excessive to me, especially looking at past parade photos that didn't have all of those out-walkers...but they stuck to their guns until about a month, month and a half before the parade...(I think)...and we had to cut down on our numbers. So we reduced from thirteen to seven, with only very experienced horse handlers as our out-walkers. I did have a plan for making it appear like a wedding party, to make it look pleasing if we did include all 13. They didn't say where we had to place the out-walkers! So I would have grouped all of the non-horsey out-walkers like a wedding party and had all the horse savvy people near the carriages. I would have been pretty. Especially since they would have all been in bunads. Beth Important FjordHorse List Links: Subscription Management: http://tinyurl.com/5msa7e FH-L Archives: http://tinyurl.com/rcepw FH_L Shirts: http://tinyurl.com/8yky94l
