If you like horses or know about them what is your favorite breed and color of horse?
My 2 favorite breeds are a welsh and an irish cobb. My 2 favorite colors are a grey and a paint.
Why don't more people buy well bred TB mares and cross them with AQHA race stallions to produce barrel racers? Dunno about where you live, but the Ocala sale by me had an 11 year old AP Indy mare in foal to Jess's Dream sell for $1100. There were plenty of Candy Ride babies selling for $1000 of all ages. Is there something here I'm missing?
Curious if anyone has any experience/tips for a tender footed horse. I had to put my mare of 23 years down a bit ago and I've been in the market for another one now, I found a sweet little 7 year old mare, but she has tender feet. She's currently shod on all 4 feet and the current owner says she hasn't had any problems with her shod on all 4's. Just wondering if anyone else who's he a tender footed horse ran into additional problems or anything you have done for them to keep them comfortable. She will just be used for light arena work and trail riding. Thanks!
Today I had a very humiliating experience.
I am looking for a weekly hack (purely for enjoyment). I started riding when I was 11, had my own horses (one was greenbacked when I got him, and we went on to jump 1m), stopped to study and have children, etc (always taking hacks whenever I could).
Today, after being out of the saddle for longer than a year, I went to meet a pony as a potential hack. All went well until I got on. I had hardly sat down when she started walking. Lightly pulling the reins didn't stop her, so I pulled harder. The third pull worked. Did some adjustments to the saddle and my stirrups, then asked her to walk. I could for the life of me not keep her walking along the edge of the arena. She kept on drifting to the middle. I would ask her to go back with the reins and inside leg, and she would just turn her head and go where she wanted to.
Long story short, I got off after less than 10 minutes after agreeing with her owner that we weren't going to work together.
So now I'm left wondering if I'm actually a terrible rider, or if we were just plain incompatible. Her owner told me she can ride her bareback with a halter, and I have no doubt she can. Apparently the pony is very well trained.
I've never struggled like this morning, and it's shaken my confidence to the core.
