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Posted on 01/02/2007 9:57:39 AM PST by HairOfTheDog
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Tacking up at the trailhead...
And we're off :~)
Scary looking hole opened up in the trail... makes me wonder what's under there...
IN the creek...
Through a clear cut :~\ (We found it to be very hot in the sun, but seeing as how it's only 78 degrees, maybe most of you won't feel bad for us at all.
As long as his young horse still has to trot to catch up, then I think Bay is doing good!
STILL scary after all these years :~)
At a rest stop.... scrape on Cyn's nose... not sure how she did this...
Bay looking pretty in profile I thought :~)
And back into the nice cool shade :~)
And that's it... all booted up and ready to go home :~)
Nothing like a good meal to perk somebody up!
Great pictures! Looks like a lovely day for a ride.
PS - no sympathy for 78 degrees :)
She got wormed today and watched Sam get wormed and shots plus she got carrots and brushed a bit. I think she feels a whole lot better.
Believe it or not, that is a turtle hole! We have a bunch of them on one of the trails that we go down. Big Horse Eating Turtle Holes. (If you couldn’t guess, the horses get all snorty when they go by them) It’s more of a chain reaction really, one starts, and then they all get going. The holes are deep enough so that they could snap an ankle or a leg if they were to trip into one.
Very nice pictures. Looks like a great ride..
78...right.
How was Bay at the start? Did he seem OK?
I noticed you are riding in the hack...did you ever switch to the kimberwicke? Have you gotten his head up any or is he still a WP horse:)
Looks like some of the downed trees are finding their way into the creek.
Becky
I love it when older horses don’t act their age. Tammy, the black horse who I’ve posted pictures of, is now in her 30s, and she’s the shiniest, most rip snorting horse out of all of them.
I also noticed Bay’s breast collar. You don’t think it’s up a bit high on his neck??
Almost looks like it could choke him if the saddle slipped back, or if he put his head down to graze any?? He really looks good, looks like he’s put on some weight too:)
Becky
Duchess... thanks :~)
I also noticed Bay’s breast collar. You don’t think it’s up a bit high on his neck?? Almost looks like it could choke him if the saddle slipped back, or if he put his head down to graze any??
I've thought so too, when I first got that one... but the only place to connect it is way up high like that... I could put it through the girth leathers, but then I didn't like how it came over the knee rolls in the saddle, and it sat too low and would slip down. It really isn't too tight, it's got elastic at both ends... So much that up really steep hills, it doesn't really keep the saddle from slipping back anyway. I had to move it forward at our break. And that's a big muscle there, not his airway, but I do take it off if we're going to sit and graze them because I don't think it looks comfortable.
But I have agreed, at times I've used the other one below that's a standard three piece with a ring at the chest. It's not elastic though, and I think it's kindof thin (I should get a wide western one), and it's a bigger hassle to put on, and since it connects to the girth, I think it pulls the girth forward of where I like it and was part of why Bay would get rubs, and yadayada... lately I've been going with the elastic one.
And I rode in the Kimberwick last time, this time I picked the Hackamore because I actually thought he seemed a bit hotter to trot before we left :~) He does hold his head lower in it though :~)
Oh - and yes, he has got a belly, how polite of you to notice ;~)
I keep the bottom tie fairly loose so it doesn't pull the girth. A girth pad helps too.
I didn't notice in a bad way...I think he looks really good.
I was wondering about him at the start of your ride because the last couple of times you talked about working him you commented about him feeling really well, and wondering how he would be.
I didn't realize the breast collar had elastic. That probably helps. I had one of those V shaped ones for my old western saddle. I had it adjusted too high. Two times when Belle would bend down to graze it shut off her air and caused her to go down, (I wasn't on her). As soon as she went down the collar loosened and she'd get back up like nothing happened. But it took 2 times happening before I realized what was causing it. I guess that is why I notice breast collars:).
Becky
Heh... I think he’s got a bit of a belly :~)
But you’re right that it looks high... I wish there was a set of rings a little further down. I usually adjust the elastic breastcollar so that it’s taught but not stretching yet. He’s never indicated any difficulty with it... even up hill... up hill is one of his best things. It’s down hill he doesn’t like. ;~) And he can graze in it.
I have wanted to find a nice wide regular breastcollar, and a western one would work if I could find one that was right. English ones are so narrow and delicate that I think they’d be darned uncomfortable if they were really in play.
Ooop meant to ping you to the above too :~)
Yay, Hair and Ecurbh went on a trail ride! Thanks for posting pictures.
Becky, I was going to mention before, that the bay horse in the playday pics, is really nice. Harley looks great too!
Because it was raining, I did not go to the horse show. Where they were showing (about an hour drive) it didn't rain on them. Alison did well.
Been so long we almost didn’t know the way :~)
Glad Alison didn’t get rained on!
Man Hair, those punctures look bad! If you’re not up on your tetanus shots you might ought to go get one. I’ll bet they hurt like the dickens too!
Y’all are the fencingest people I’ve ever seen! ;o)
But it sure looks good. Good job!
They’re a little tender still, and want to get infected but so far they aren’t. I think they’ll be OK... You know I’m not going to go get a ~shot~. ;~)
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