>>>>> Okay. I can guess. How about quarter horse and he's twelve. Or thoroughbred?
I thought the breed would be a reasonably easy guess. You're right, he's a QH, that we named Cruise Control. We bought him as a young weanling, but didn't start him until he was four...and this was before I bought my first Icelandic. We were already migrating towards starting horses at a later age here. In this picture, he's 4, I think, probably under saddle for maybe 60-ish days at this point - he might have just turned 5 in this picture. At any rate, he was young and barely "green-broke." I thought he looked a little TB-ish at that age too, but he continued to muscle up until he was seven, and he ended up looking very much the "bulldog" foundation QH that he is. I found this picture and thought it might be interesting to look at. This was probably in 2002 I think - that's my daughter up, because with a freshly broken back, no way was I going to get on a green-broke horse. (Well, not until Anneliese introduced me to Sina not much later...) I've sent a lot of pictures in of us working with my young Icelandic's this summer, but honestly, we started Cruise almost exactly the same way. It doesn't matter to me if a young horse is gaited or not...you have to get the basics done before you do anything else. Cruise was as easy to start under saddle as about any horse I've ever known. We used our "home-blend" of Parelli, other NH methods, and some good solid "classical" horsemanship too. Karen Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.485 / Virus Database: 269.13.6/991 - Release Date: 9/5/2007 2:55 PM
