Re: RE: Tall horses & MOUNTING!

["Sandy Bolinger" <bolinger@bigsky.net>]

I got to ride Suzy Hayes' horse Kooter on the Big Horn 100 a few years
back---he is over 16 hands....as usual, I was all by myself the last 25
miles(going my usual SLOW pace) when I HAD to get off him to tear apart a
gate that someone had locked before I got there(I thought)...that is a whole
other story!!! Anyway---Kooter and I were out in this bumpless, stumpless,
rockless, country---and having already ridden 75 miles--getting on without
some kind of help was out of the question!  I ended up walking for two miles
before I found a clod of dirt tall enough to get me on.-Always wondered why
Suzy NEVER gets off  Kooter except at the vet checks ;o]

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From: <CMKSAGEHIL@aol.com>
To: <kathy_mayeda@atce.com>; <Julienne.Rha.B@bayer.com>;
<ridecamp@endurance.net>
Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2000 4:49 PM
Subject: RC: RE: Tall horses & MOUNTING!


> In a message dated 8/24/00 3:42:14 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
> kathy_mayeda@atce.com writes:
>
> << Yes, I just forego all pride and look for the nearest stump.  >>
>
> I was confronted with a Russian Orlov that was about 16:1 hh on the 120 k
> ride I rode in Bremen, Germany, a few years ago.  (I am 5'1" and chubby!)
> First time I met this horse was the day before the ride, and first time I
> actually got on him was 10 minutes before the ride started.... Hooo boy...
> And lemme tell you, that country is FLAT!!  The biggest elevation change
was,
> I think, the horse overpass over the Bremen freeway...  NO chance of just
> getting on from the uphill side, which always sufficed with the taller
horses
> I rode as a kid!  <g>  I was sure glad this was a sweet horse, as he
suffered
> my clamboring aboard from a perch atop an inverted bucket at the start,
and
> at each check, I had to find "something"--can remember maneuvering him
into
> ditches, up to the backs of cars to use bumpers, and a couple of other
little
> tricks.  He was very patient with it all, and we managed to complete...
:-)
>
> Heidi
>
>
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