Re: Tripping in Fjord horses

2012-02-07 Thread S K
This message is from: S K windyacre...@yahoo.com Marie,   My Andy ( 8yr. old ) tripped badly when Chris Lombard had him in a trot last summer...I thought he was going down..!  I have a farrier whose been with me for 12 yrs...He's  been a farrier for many yrsChris says it's because even

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2012-02-07 Thread Debby
This message is from: Debby miss.am...@earthlink.net I’d not had any of my fjords ever be trippy. I did have an older retired hunt horse that came to me that way, in fact the previous caretakers told me to take care of his tripping. At that time, I really had little knowledge. I rode him

Re: Tripping in Fjord horses

2012-02-07 Thread Starfire Farm
This message is from: Starfire Farm starfiref...@usa.net Tripping can be the result of a number of things: The rider's balance over the horse's front legs; A lazy horse; An inattentive horse; A tense horse; A horse that has not been warmed up well enough; A horse lacking hindquarter/loin

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2012-02-07 Thread Debby
This message is from: Debby miss.am...@earthlink.net The funny thing I’ve seen with horses that have some issues, whether tripping or lack of being forward, being lazy, not balanced. If they are out in the pasture, running around with their friends, how do they move. I know my Ynde who is

Re: tripping

2012-02-07 Thread Starfire Farm
This message is from: Starfire Farm starfiref...@usa.net It seems to me that the rider putting extra weight on their horses forehand can and would be an issue, but at the point of being lame? If this is in response to my earlier post, please let me clarify. The horse was NOT clinically lame,