--- Judy Ryder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > I know that Iceland is a very big place and not every body who is
> > Icelandic trains the same way.....it would be like saying that
> all
> > Americans train the same way, that would be a ridiculous
> statement.
>
> Iceland is about the size of Rockford, Illinois; less people than
> Honolulu!
> relatively small in the scheme of things!
Ok Judy, com' on. I was actually talking about the size of Iceland
as the island it is. I know that here on the Big island which is
tiny compared to Iceland, we only have around 160,000 people living
here, most of them do not own horses.....however every trainer trains
differently.....I would not take my horse to the so called best
trainer on the island, as he trains for cutting and roping....I do
not want to ride that way, but hes the best and he wait time for
training is around 2 years...plus the fact that I am opposed to
Futurites, which is what a lot of his training is aimed for.
The other best trainer on the island is wonderful, however he thinks
Icelandics are no different than other breeds and thinks he knows
everything, as he has worked for King and Parker ranch and studies
classical dressage in Germany, and actually teaches some clinics
there.
There are as many different ways to train a horse as there are
trainers.
You just can not put all of Iceland into a neat little cubical and
think that all of them train the same way...I have to admit it pushes
one of my buttons.
I have my gelding who was mishandled as an adolescent into adulthood
at my friends who is training him for me....she knows how I ride and
what I am capable of physically and she is training him for me,
especially for me....thats what I want in training, a trainer who
puts the horses and riders needs infront of their Ego and what should
be done.
There are so many disiplines of riding and using horses, that just
becuase a horse is trained does not mean that it is trained for you
to ride it. How many of us can ride a TB off the track without any
re-training....how many of us can ride a roping horse, a barrel
racer, a pole bending horse? A 4th level dressage horse out on the
trail.
Now all of these disaplines require a lot of training, but that does
not mean I want to ride them without some retraining envolved.
Just because you have purchased a trained horse from Iceland,
America, germany, whatever...does not mean it is suitable for you to
ride yet, and does not mean that the whole country trains the horse
in a certain way.....there are so many varibles......
Skye
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