On 2/21/07, Cherie Mascis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I trained my Welsh/Arabian to park out and do a partial bow. It lowered the > stirrup about 6 in. which made it easier to get on. I had to get off and on > several times during trail rides to check girths and pick-up things people > had dropped, but I didn't do it all the time because I didn't want to strain > his back. > > Cherie >
I have heard or read somewhere that if you teach your horse to lay down or do the bow where they go down on both knees, to not have them do it more than three times in one day. I taught jas to park out but every time I would go to mount he would step up and act like "whoops, shes gonna mount, better straighten up" :) I have gotten so good at mounting from next to nothing tho.... I can lead jaspar up to a straight young pine tree, about three or four inches in diameter, and grab the saddle and hold on and balance and then use the tree as a brace while holding onto the saddle and sorta shimmying up it :) but you gotta have a real good horse for that:) The best he ever did for me was when a bad farrier left his toes too long on purpose (to break up the pace--- without telling me) and a couple of weeks later on a flat sandy road jaspar stumbled and FELL and I fell too and broke three ribs in the middle of NOWHERE with a riding friend who is autistic and not much help. She got so freaked out and excited and couldnt be calmed enough to help me back on so I had to lead Jaspar into a thicket of Florda holly, thats like leading him into a huge mound of razor sharp needles, and climb up on a crumbling stump and it would break away underneath me and I would fall into him and he would just brace himself and not move until I finally stood in the stirrup and with much moaning and groaning and cussing wallered up on him.... :) My friend wanted to gallop back and I kept trying to explain I couldnt take any hard riding, but she kept going faster and faster and getting her horse in a trot which woulda killed me, but jaspar hit his exceptionally smooth stepping pace for which I am eternally grateful.... he truly is a horse worth his weight in pure gold. 24 K :) Janice -- yipie tie yie yo
