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  • #41
    I agree that you look just fine on this horse. Not at all too big. I promise, Id be one of the first ones to tell you if you were too big. Go out and have fun, cute horse!!

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    • #42
      I love riding ponies. I am getting down to a normal/average weight and can ride ponies again. I am going to get down to a weight so that I can ride medium ponies. I told my dr and he was like..alright. To ride smalls I would need to get down to 120 lbs. Um..not in this lifetime. I am close to 40..

      My trainer told me the next time that my horse doesn't want to be caught in the field to move his feet. Make him run around. He will be begging for you to catch him.
      Insignia MC - Spanish PRE mare
      Kenny - Hanoverian Gelding
      Tuggy - RIP at the bridge (9/12/2016)
      Theodore the Boxer - RIP at the the bridge (10/5/2017)

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      • #43
        MO:
        You look fine on Ms Pony.
        And she looks none too happy about the change in her Plan, but a Pony's Motto is:
        "Deal for now, there's always another way out"

        Somewhere I have a pic of adult 5'5" 140# me (in biballs no less) on a 10h pony.
        We joked if he stopped at a jump all I'd need to do was stand up & take us both over.

        Now you got me thinking about throwing a leg over my 12h Hackney.
        Preferably bareback so no tack to entangle me when the Rodeo starts.
        Good thing my arena footing is deep.

        I've missed riding BB but Horse is 17h+ and I am {bawk!} chicken.
        *friend of bar.ka*RIP all my lovely boys, gone too soon:
        Steppin' Out 1988-2004
        Hey Vern! 1982-2009, Cash's Bay Threat 1994-2009
        Sam(Jaybee Altair) 1994-2015

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        • #44
          Originally posted by alg0181 View Post
          I swooped up a longewhip and chased that sucker until he realized the error of his ways...lmao. Incredibly, after that, he always came up to me to be haltered...

          I consider barn-sour-ness, difficulty catching, not standing still for mounting, etc. as serious faults in horse manners, and I don't tolerate them. Just baffled that so many do.
          well I am all for cracking someone's @#!*% ,but I also know that horse handling is a bit like an archaeological dig with a bit of cattle handling** thrown in....

          my horses come to a whistle/car horn as they are trained to when they are little as some of my pastures are 100 plus acres...a bite of sugar lump or feed will reinforce the habit til they "get it", then a pat will suffice in their little golf ball brains


          **we got a new pen of feeders in and #209 almost ran me over yesterday...then I noticed she's off on that eye...observation noted,deduction made, MY behavior altered and we get on fine now

          Tamara in TN
          Production Acres,Pro A Welsh Cobs
          I am one of the last 210,000 remaining full time farmers in America.We feed the others.

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          • #45
            Originally posted by Tamara in TN View Post
            well I am all for cracking someone's @#!*% ,but I also know that horse handling is a bit like an archaeological dig with a bit of cattle handling** thrown in....

            my horses come to a whistle/car horn as they are trained to when they are little as some of my pastures are 100 plus acres...a bite of sugar lump or feed will reinforce the habit til they "get it", then a pat will suffice in their little golf ball brains



            Tamara in TN
            I've done that too - it's wonderful. I bang the halters against the metal gates, and they all come in from the back to see what's what - saves all that walking I used to do before I was smart enough to figure that trick out, rofl!
            Originally posted by ExJumper
            Sometimes I'm thrown off, sometimes I'm bucked off, sometimes I simply fall off, and sometimes I go down with the ship. All of these are valid ways to part company with your horse.

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            • #46
              Originally posted by alg0181 View Post
              I wonder sometimes why this kind of take-no-crap training is so uncommon. I'm only 23 but my first trainer was this way, and I guess instilled in me the basic principle of give an inch, they'll take a mile. So it seems natural to me.

              When I visit someone's barn (usually much older than me) and they have to bust out the grain bucket to catch horses, it makes me WTF a little. My horse ran away from me in turnout exactly once. I swooped up a longewhip and chased that sucker until he realized the error of his ways...lmao. Incredibly, after that, he always came up to me to be haltered...

              I consider barn-sour-ness, difficulty catching, not standing still for mounting, etc. as serious faults in horse manners, and I don't tolerate them. Just baffled that so many do.
              Well, come teach my hard-to-catch mare please please please. She wont even come to a grain bucket! I can't run her around fast enough to wear her down. She'll just trot trot trot and wait. By the time I get there she will trot trot trot to the other side and wait. So I have to get ghetto and get the golf cart and whip. Mare wanted to run? Well then RUN! Oh you want to stop? OH NO NOT YET! Till she's turned to me and shoving her nose in the halter. Take her in the round pen she follows me around, stop, turn, back, trot, stop, what ever I do.

              Two days later? It's let's play "Catch the Mare" again. Over and over and over. Granted, now "Catch the Mare" doesn't last a half hour, after about 5 minutes she's like "Ok, ok! HERE! Put the halter on me!!"

              Some times hubby will stand on one end and I stand on the other end of the paddock to keep her working until she decides it's easier and less work to be caught.

              And then there are some days that I actually CAN just go out and put my hands on her (when I have a halter in the other hand. If there is no halter? She's all over me. Too fricking smart!).
              I want a signature but I have nothing original to say except: "STHU and RIDE!!!

              Wonderful COTHER's I've met: belleellis, stefffic, snkstacres and janedoe726.

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