Hi Janice, >is there a different evaluation for riding?? The riding evaluation is also judging each horse against a certain standard rather than other horses that are at that particular evaluation. Don't know if that is what you mean.
I know some people on this list don't like the evaluation process in terms of what they are judging for because it is not what the average person who has Icelandics may be looking for. However it is pretty much the same (meaning that they have a specific testing standards that every horse in the breed is judged on) for every breed that does have an evaluation process which is pretty much limited to the European breeds. I am not sure that most people who are looking for pleasure horses really care if the horse is evaluated or not. Whenever I was looking for horses in Iceland I looked at the horse first, rather than whether it was evaluated or not. With the stallions it was the same - I bought the horses for what they presented to me first and decided, and then looked at the scores. Robyn Icelandic Horse Farm Robyn Hood & Phil Pretty Vernon BC Canada www.icefarm.com -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.432 / Virus Database: 268.16.9/622 - Release Date: 1/10/2007 2:52 PM "The greatest enemy of the truth very often is not the lie- deliberate, contrived and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent, persuasive and unrealistic." "All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident." ~ Arthur Schopenhauer [] The video every Icelandic Horse owner should have: http://IceHorses.net/video.html [] Lee Ziegler http://leeziegler.com [] Liz Graves http://lizgraves.com [] Lee's Book Easy Gaited Horses http://tinyurl.com/7vyjo [] IceHorses Map http://www.frappr.com/IceHorses [] IceHorses ToolBar http://iceryder.ourtoolbar.com/ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/IceHorses/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/IceHorses/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
