passed vet check today, be coming home in next week or so.
11yo calm cool collected guy. previous life had him a family trail horse. used to camping and group trail rides. Rode him yesterday. Pretty excited to get him home.
First ride today, things went pretty well. Seems to be a fast learner. Doesnt seem to get upset at the same thing twice.
Got a snorty and upset at first wooden bridge, walked over it a couple times, then the next ones he didnt pay any attention to.
Same thing with a group of camo soldiers coming through the woods. He ddint bolt or anything just stopped and snorted and tried to go opposite direction. Next group that passed he didnt pay any attention to.
QUite a bit better start than General Beauregard's. Seems like an all in all pretty sane fellow.
Rikki is the same way. It's weird, I had always thought Arabs were nut jobs, I get one, and it turns out to be more sane than my quarter horse. And you must post more pics! Flash is a beautiful boy! Posted via Mobile Device
Still putting his tack together, did get reins, bit , headstall and some doodads in the mail this week.. Oh week is Sat-wed for me this week. So havent done much sense I rode him last week.
been riding him in my tucker, done petersburg twice, an labor day went to a friends house after working all night. Probably wasnt wisest plan. I hating riding with a group when I dont know the way. Ended up with alot more side of highway riding, combined with the typical group bullcrap.
Only person that knows the way is all the way in the back, and the person in the front keeps constantly stopping. Got pretty anoying,. feet ( barefoot) seemd to be getting a bit ouchy, as even though I asked was quite a bit of gravel. Farrier is coming tommorrow morning. Really need to start putting some hard miles on him, but cant decide to try boots for one cycle or just go straight to shoes. Big trail ride coming up in two weeks. I do have a set of size 2 renegades, but not sure if they will fit. Maybe wait for farrier to trim one foot get measurement. If existing boot is good fit try em a few weeks if not nail on some cold hard steel.
Did you measure him right after a trim? With the vipers you would rather have them too big than too small. Sure, they make an annoying clopping noise, but too small and they are a **** to use. Posted via Mobile Device
What a looker! Love his color and the pix are great...I wouldn't mind getting another Arab..looks and sounds like he will be a very fun horse to ride!! good luck with him!
well swing and a miss on the renegades, they sucked, think they were too big. Even though I was exact on measurements I let them send me the wrong size with me KNOWING it was the wrong size. ERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR,,, so frustrated. just called my farrier to come put steel shoes on my horse so I can ride him
My hobby is riding , not screwing around with new age hippy gadgets.
I am probably more hippy than you are, but I really do like shoes just because they are so much easier to use for me. Maybe I'll change my mind one day. I'm sure that it is a lot more economical to use the boots. Some of us are a little slow to change our ways.
I used shoes when I did barrel racing and all the rodeo events. But I like the fact that I can take them off after a ride, and have him walking around on his bare feet. Granted sometimes when Rikki is being a jerk, its kinda hard to get his boots on. But otherwise, to me, they are awesome.
The only ones that I have used were some of the first easy boots that came out years ago. It took forever to put them on and then it took forever to get them off. They also has little spike things that dinged up the top of the hoof, which didn't seem like a good idea.
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