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Re: RC: Mare vs Gelding?



I am probably on my 20th mare, I love them, geldings and stallions are for
someone else, but I certainly don't reject them.

I started with a gray mare who was greenbroke and I didn't even know what
green broke meant.  Of course she had zillions of huge mellinomas by the
time she passed on at 37 years old.  She had 4 great basbies, one was even a
boy!

Joan Ruprecht




----- Original Message -----
From: Annette Gordon <agordon@worldofwonder.co.uk>
To: <SandyDSA@aol.com>
Cc: Ridecamp <ridecamp@endurance.net>
Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2000 7:42 AM
Subject: RC: RC: Mare vs Gelding?


> Hi Sandy
>
> Yes give me a mare any day too. They aren't as easy to train as geldings
but
> once you work it out with them they are wonderful, caring horses to be
with.
> I have a mare and a gelding and although I love my gelding a lot it's my
> mare that I feel closest to. Also now that the worst of the training is
over
> I feel safer on her and much more part of a team.
>
> My gelding can and does regularly deposit me, my mare hasn't dumped me in
> over 2 years. She spooks, she shies, she rears, she bucks but never enough
> to get rid of me. I can also walk and run with her and she doesn't tread
on
> me. In fact bless her when I'm walking ahead of her she nudges me every
now
> and then with her muzzle to check where I am. The gelding regularly treads
> all over me - his mind is on other things.
>
> My mare also knows how to take care of herself. Mares are programmed
> biologically to look after themselves and their foal at foot. This is why
> they frequently get a bad name for being difficult - they aren't difficult
> they're just careful and have a mind of their own which they use.
>
> I've always owned mares. This current one I describe is my fourth. The
> gelding is my first gelding. He has a great personality but I know that
when
> I fall off him if I don't hold onto the reins he's gone gone gone.
>
> Bye
>
> Annette
>
>
>
>
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