On 9/15/07, Skye and Sally ~Fire Island <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thats interesting....from my experience I have witnessed that people, > horse professionals and trainers that have a superior attitude with > these horses, that our Icelandics do not tolerate it..they do get > stubborn,,,,,I call it a good sense of worth.....
My riding instructor rode Orri once to 'make' him back up according to the way he felt he should and all Orri did was rear and try to get away from him. My daughters riding instructor, a woman, once rode Gat to see if she could get a headset and she ended up going around the arena backwards and/or sideways as Gat totally resisted her. Neither of these instructors were able to get what they felt was correct from my horses by 'forcing' and I would prefer muddling along in my own inexperienced way than ever allow them to 'train' for me. V
