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Post by stormyranch on Mar 12, 2009 16:58:33 GMT -5
What about stallion prejudice? Has anyone encountered that?
Yes Bobbe,
we have experienced stallion prejudice. Unfortunately it's harder to convince people that they can be safe to be around than it is to convince people mustangs are great horses!
If there is a wild horse club and mustang show in Prineville this year we are going. Going to give Kevin some Kiger company in the halter/ trail classes ;D.There is a mustang show(should be a big deal!) put on by the Central Oregon Wild horse coalition. Kevin and I will be there for sure! I think it is the last weekend in July as it's right after Kigerfest.
Lisa
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Post by stlkigers on Mar 12, 2009 21:15:55 GMT -5
If you go to Ray Hunt's website at www.rayhunt.com and click on sale horses there's a poem there called "Heart". It pretty much says it all. Awesome poem, thanks for drawing our attention to it... And Tracey, I got to agree with you....Whenever Jessi and I show we flip manes over brand until we see how the judge is placing...once comfortable though (usually after 2 classes) the mane gets put back on the right side to show off the brand! That's the one great thing about having a mustang with lots of hair...We can flip the mane to either side...I don't pull or band...I like it natural...And with the foundation QH and ranch horse movements so strong here lots of horses are long and unbanded these days... Angela |
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Post by desperatehorsewife on Mar 12, 2009 23:48:40 GMT -5
Yup, long is getting popular! Steve Holt!'s is unbelievably long.
We just got back from the Riding Club meeting where we'd been asked to do a demo on what we'd been working on. The barn managed had seen us and was quite impressed with how much this horse who'd 'just been run into a trailer' could do and she wanted us to share.
So tonight there were about 30 people standing at the end of the arena, some who never would have given a second thought as to what a mustang could do, and they were all very supportive, excited, and full of questions. Steve Holt! backed, sidepassed, drug his bag in circles, carried pole bending poles and I could here the gasps as he loped small, smooth circles in the center of the arena (too bad he hasn't got a head set yet, they'd have been fainting!) I even had my big market tent up and rode under that a few times. I'm pretty sure we changed a mind or two about just what a mustang can do with a couple months under saddle. The barn manger kept pointing out, "You see how loose those reins are? You see how light her hand is?"
The more we can do stuff like this, the more people will start to relax around mustangs and think of them as being on a level playing field.
(The plastic bag really put those folks away because I rubbed it all over him before dropping it to the ground and having him sidepass over the top of it, then trotted circles with it banging around his legs while the barn manager was saying, "Can your horses do that???" It was funny to listen to everyone.)
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Post by gonekigercrazy on Mar 13, 2009 11:17:57 GMT -5
Love all of your stories..least I know I'm not just getting this in Michigan.
Great pics! They both look so beautiful.
I really had to laugh about it all after I thought on it some more. Especially the one woman that kept fussin about traceable bloodlines. She will tell anybody who will listen about the $55,000 warmblood she bought from overseas somewhere. The horse is the worst cribber, stall weaver and biter I've ever seen. I think she has to put others down to make herself feel better about what she got for her money.
I can't wait for spring to get here, looking forward to Nocona's first outings.
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