>>> I think tho that the point was that it was some screwed up advice by someone who thinks horses raised in iceland are raised better than here, that horses here are pampered, and you gotta admit she offered some pretty screwed up advice, and then turns out she's a founder of the USIHC??! you gotta admit thats an embarassment, at least it is to me. but i shouldnt be surprised really. All the officials of the TWHBEA and RHBAA probably go home at night and pull wings off flys and attach little padded big lick shoes on them and watch them crawl around on the coffee table like crippled ducks. So why should the usihc be any different really.
One thing I'd have to add, and hopefully this topic will fade away. :) This book, A Good Horse Has No Color, by Nancy Marie Brown, has been discussed on this list and other lists several times, by those of us who aren't particularly enamored of "the Icelandic way" and well as by the "traditionalists" - for lack of better terms. And by people who have actually read the book - I have and I'm sure many of us own it and have read it. The one thing that stands out is that I honestly and truly can't remember anyone (who's actually read the book) criticizing the book as inaccurate or misleading. In fact, I think it's gotten a lot of praise f from ALL camps or its accurate (if maybe somewhat naïve or rose-colored) portrayal of the horse culture in Iceland. I don't remember that part ever being debated before this thread. It's a very well-written book - sheesh it MUST be that all "sides" can agree on that part! The author was very new to horses when she went to Iceland to live, but she was quite honest about that, so I don't blame her if I feel she was a little naïve - that's very much a part of her "saga". Frankly, some of the most disturbing things about foal-raising and horse-training I've heard has been directly off of Icelanders' own websites, and from their own posts to various lists - many of those are more detailed and negative (to my mores) than anything in Nancy's book. If what Nancy quoted Anne Elwell as saying about how to treat the foals is not at all representative of the traditional way in Iceland, then there have been oodles of missed chances for people (Icelanders, Europeans, Americans who have visited Iceland many times) to correct her...but I can't remember that ever happening. Karen Thomas, NC -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.446 / Virus Database: 268.18.25/743 - Release Date: 4/2/2007 4:24 PM
