--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> yesterday i took stjarni in a fourth-of-july parade, and we rode
> back
> behind a group of three-gaited drill horses from new hampshire.
> definitely the one at the end was a bit freaked out as we tolted up
> behind them -- i suspect the fast four-beat sounded like two
> trotting
> horses from behind.
>
> --vicka
Interesting.....We rarley ride with non gaited horses....I can not
even remember the last time we did....we do have a quarab that we own
that is pastured with our Icelandics, he is level headed and has
never minded, he just goes into his lovely ( to watch ) floaty trot
when we tolt.
I do have this one story, our friends bought a colt who was out of
our mare and stallion....anyway he was raised for 2 years with welsh
stud colts out in a 20 acre pasture....when the new owners bought
him, they took him to the cattle ranch where they have their other
horses...and they have about 25 very large ranch horses there...they
are TB/QTR cross...well Nupar the colt started chasing them wanting
to play, and they all we scared and would run off...Nupar looks like
a leopard with all his amazing dapples, that are so prominent I swear
they are real SPots...anyway, they had to move him after a week, it
took a week before the ranch horses settled down....the ranch owner
wanted the ranch horses to know Nupar so they wouldn't spook when
pushing cattle.
Nupar will be 3 next month and will be a working cattle ranch horse
in about 2 years.....pretty cool. His owners are very good to their
horses, and just love them up!
Skye
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