> > Tell me something (this is to anyone that knows)....are Icetolts a > huge thing or popular in areas where people normally experience the > ice and snow of a regular winter?
well, wouldnt it be pretty hard to set up an ice tolt ring unless you had a regular icy winter? Here we have deep sucky mud, and even the most despicable horse people will tell you if you want to ruin a horse, ride him fast through deep sucky mud. Pulled tendons i think... I just watch and listen to my horses. If we come up on a bog and they start smelling the ground and balking and trying to walk through weeds at the edge, it may be a bad place to go fast thru. Naturally, on its own, how does a horse act when it comes up on an icey patch. Does it slow and walk like on eggs? Bad thing about sucky mud, is a horse will start trying to hurry out of it and thats when trouble starts a lot of the time. Janice -- even good horses have bad days sometimes.
