Mine: Icelandic horses, because they're gaited, are super strong, sturdy, and good for inexperienced riders. And they're BEAUTIFUL!
Also, Norwegian Fjords: because they're cool looking, sturdy + powerful, good with kids, can be used for lots of different things.
Mine: Icelandic horses, because they're gaited, are super strong, sturdy, and good for inexperienced riders. And they're BEAUTIFUL!
Also, Norwegian Fjords: because they're cool looking, sturdy + powerful, good with kids, can be used for lots of different things.
I've owned a lot of different breeds over the years. At different stages, different breeds were favorites.
Now, due to age, shape/condition & weight, I'd have to say i need/want a short, heavy working breed that is maybe a little laid back & slower. A pony cross would be lovely!! I don't like dealing w/ heavy feathering, so a Gypsy or some draft crosses are probably not ideal.
I'm open to different breeds as long as they "fit" me. I have, in the past, always preferred mares.
This pic taken at a Hunter Pace in Advance NC in 2008. Riding our daughter's 13.3 hh Arabian mares. Last time I rode her was in 2012. She got into some "hi-jinx airs above the ground". It probably wasn't high or really terrible, but both of my hips "locked". It became a terrifying & very painful situation. I couldn't unlock or swing either leg for an emergency dismount. After what seemed ages & forever, I was able to maneuver her next to a cooler & painfully dismount.
That was the last time I was able to actually ride. Every time thereafter, one or the other hip locked while trying to mount. Never both again, though.
Pretty Girl continued to go through weird bucking sessions after that w/ other riders as well. Vet consults, massage & chiro, different saddles, different girths, smaller & capable riders. Didn't matter. Then, a few months later, developed a strange illness & dropped over 100 pounds "overnight" - while eating w/ gusto. Testing/possible surgery @ NCSU in Raleigh beyond our financial means at the time especially since we'd just paid for 'Dira to do a semester abroad in conjuntion w/ her college degree. She was in London when PG was euthanized & buried. To say our daughter "hated us" was an understatement. We were able to have a necropsy done - she had a growing abdomen tumor - behind her elbows. We would not have been able to treat it. The testing we were discussing prob wouldn't have discovered cancer. Whole "ending" so, so rotten terrible.
Arabians. Sleek, fast, beautiful, endurance, the way they move, so graceful. Two of mine used to come in the house. They are my heart horse. I will always miss them.
Arabians. Sleek, fast, beautiful, endurance, the way they move, so graceful. Two of mine used to come in the house. They are my heart horse. I will always miss them.
Mine: Icelandic horses, because they're gaited, are super strong, sturdy, and good for inexperienced riders. And they're BEAUTIFUL!
Also, Norwegian Fjords: because they're cool looking, sturdy + powerful, good with kids, can be used for lots of different things.
