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Look for longer distance from the ankle to the hoof... That usually give a big more spring to the walk.... I chose my mare because she looked like an old tyme Morgan in her classified pictures. I have had horses now 47 years.... I knew her breed and description the pix was an optic illusion. Yep shes a half an inch taller than me at the wither... I snapped my ACL in my left knee when the mounting block steps collapsed while I was getting on her. Beleive me I would have rather broken a bone.

Believe it or not Icelandic are able to pack a 250 lb man and they run around 13 hands. Oh and they are smooooooth.

Icelandic being shown at the Tolt... a natural gait they are famous for...

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Twenty five years ago, I hired a man with a draft team to log some property I have. It was a bay Perch and a Black draft mule. I have had horses all my life but never working drafts. I was fascinated. Some of the tree trunks were chest high when laying on the ground and had to be pulled up hill. Once it was hitched, the man told them to take it. The horse would start pulling as hard as it could, front legs splayed to the sides and digging into the soil. The horse's chest would be nearly on the ground and it was sweating profusely. The mule, harnessed next to the horse, waited to see if the horse could move it alone. Once he saw that the horse needed help, he would pull just enough to get the log moving. That poor horse worked it's fanny off all day and the mule never broke a sweat.
 
I keep tellin' ya, mules is smart!
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Haven't seen a post from them in a while, but there's a member here with this as their avatar:



You guys like that any better?
 

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