>>>> But the fact of the matter is that it develops a partnership and gets the horse wanting to "play" so when saddle training comes later, the horse is a willing partner, not a slave.
I believe the Icelandic Horse has traditionally been called "Man's most faithful servant" in Iceland. I guess, throughout most of history, horses have mostly been work animals, but this day and age, most of the riders I know in the USA - at least the ones I want to be with - want a partnership with their horses. I think we have a cultural divide. Oh well, my horses live in the USA now and they aren't going back to Iceland. (Only one is even from Iceland, and several are many generations in North America.) They are as isolated from Iceland now as...well, as I am from the plantation days of Gone with the Wind... :) In the late 1970's and early 1980's NC became a Mecca for industry migrating from the Northeast and Midwest - mostly the Northeast. Everyone wanted to move to NC for various reasons, but once they got here, they suddenly wanted to "fix" everything here. It was unbearable, how they patronized us Southerners. I saw some bumper stickers at the time that sized up the feelings us "natives" had. They said, "I don't give a [EMAIL PROTECTED] how you did it up North." Some days, I get that same feeling about Iceland, at least relating to the horses. Karen Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.484 / Virus Database: 269.13.1/982 - Release Date: 8/31/2007 5:21 PM
