> Now, answer me honestly, do you REALLY think you could train Nasi into being > a horse like Stonewall...? :) > > > Karen Thomas, NC >
he is high energy tho you really dont know til they get under saddle, and he has that stonewall sense of doing something if he feels it needs to be done, knowing I will understand. Like when stonewall laid down in the middle of the trail to rest with me on him. He had mild anemia. The vet said "well he is the type horse who knows he CAN do something like that, that you'll let him." I thought he was dying. Then Nasi, one day he almost killed me cause I led him up to a closed gate and when curly ray jumped him he decided he had to ram through the barely open gate, nearly smushing me. I roared and ran at him and popped curly in the nose with the end of the lead rope and they were all yiiiiii she SNAPPED and running like nuts. But he should not have even tried that. None of my horses are that disrespectful. any of them would have known running me down was not an option. But also like stonewall, I put him in the roundpen to work with him and he is a model ctizen, all happy and relaxed and wow, i get to go to school today. so i see these same similarities and they worry me some. also he has so much energy he will play on and on with curly, way way after the others are tired of it. But I dont know if thats his age, four, or his temperament. 4 seems old to be playing like a yearling but maybe not. I dont know. he is the baby around here. oh! but last nite he did a stonewall thing. he dragged his feet coming in from turnout so I did not hold his spot. I fed everyone and as soon as they ate he came to the gate wanting me to put him in with Trausti, knowing Trausti would be a kinder gentler roomie for the nite than the fearsome mccurdy boys who tromp him the instant he gets the least full of himself. and when i wouldnt let him in he went over to trausti at the fence and stuck his foot thru, something that gives me chills. I was tempted to let him in but instead ran throwing my arms at him to get him off the fence and turned the electric on. He knows I love him and manipulates me sometimes. Janice -- even good horses have bad days sometimes.
