Re: RC: Gotta love this mare

[BMcCrary27@aol.com]

In a message dated 05/24/2000 8:56:14 PM Pacific Daylight Time, 
seamstob@telusplanet.net writes:

<< My mare has always been a great drinker on the trail but this weekend
 she made me realize what a great horse she has become.
 We were cantering down the trail right behind another horse. We went
 over 2 small wood bridges. After crossing the 2nd bridge she stopped did
 a wonderful roll back stuck her head down and had a long cool drink. She
 let the other horse canter away while she drank her fill. With a long
 cool drink in her belly we galloped off to catch the other horse.
 The only problem is she really doesn't understand why I make her wait at
 water holes until other horses are done.
 She will find water on a trail where I think there isn't any.
 At one ride she stopped to drink the water out of footprints filled with
 rain water after we arrived to find the water tank empty at the trail
 side when someone left the valve open. >>

I have a mare that has become just what you describe.  I have found her to be 
head and shoulders smarter than any gelding I have ever ridden.  I suspect it 
has to do with mares being herd leaders in the wild, and also protectors of 
their young, hence they are survivors.

Barbara