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Post by kigerfan on Mar 20, 2012 11:39:58 GMT -5
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Post by Michelle Clarke on Mar 20, 2012 12:41:49 GMT -5
Cute but not my cup of tea...I can see why lots of folks like them. We trained quite a lot of them up in Chicago, I actually owned one. They were hard to ride - lots of bounce and their skin is loose on the ribcage so you slide around a lot. I think now they are breeding more sporty types and not so much the drafty ones as when we were involved with them. They knew from the time they were born they could take you out or run through things. We had them run through countless fences (well, run would be stretching it - more like plow!), half doors did not last long either - sides of stalls - whatever was in their way. Foals would randomly hit things with their chests to see if they had a chance on going through or not - kind of odd behavior...
I'll have to see if I can dig up a pic of darling "Wookie".
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Post by kigerfan on Mar 20, 2012 13:23:12 GMT -5
Have a friend in Florida who rides a top stallion in Dressage. To me they look very hard to sit at a trot and I did notice a lot of skin movement on the horses running. Interesting that they try to bull their way through things. I wouldn't want a horse that did that sort of thing. But the still do have a whole lot of Wow to them. First one I remember seeing was in the movie LadyHawk where Reutger Hauer rode Goliath.
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Post by DianneC on Mar 24, 2012 20:57:45 GMT -5
They are cool to watch, thanks for sharing this!
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