Re: Mare Smarts!!!

["Barbara McCrary" <bigcreekranch@cruzio.com>]

The one mare I have ever ridden on endurance is head and shoulders smarter
than any gelding I have ever ridden.  She drinks on the trail and eats when
she knows she must.  That's at about 30 miles into a 50 mile ride.
Everything stops while she grazes for about 10 minutes.  Then...off we go.
Good thing I was never racing for position!

Barbara

----- Original Message -----
From: <KathyZ1@aol.com>
To: <ridecamp@endurance.net>
Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2001 10:11 AM
Subject: RC: Mare Smarts!!!


> I love my mare because she's smart as a whip and is well aware of that
fact,
> thank you very much!!!
>
> She's a little cupcake if you negotiate but the word 'submission' is
simply
> not part of her vocabulary!!
>
> So funny a couple of weeks ago to watch a friend of mine get on her who
> insisted on riding with a pelham and 'lots of leg'!  She was going to show
> Bitsy (and me) how she 'should' be ridden...ie: by showing her who's the
> boss!  After warning my friend, I just shook my head, stepped back and
> covered my smile!
> Now my friend is a very strong rider but Bitsy, true to form, immediately
> resorted to her old Ms. Hydey Hyde self...bucking, rearing, and backing up
at
> about 30 mph not caring about whoops a bit of a dropoff right behind
> her....stopping just close enough to the edge to terrorize her screaming
> errant passenger!!!
> I swear I could hear my little mare chuckle!!
>
> Needless to say, my friend got off and gladly relinguished the reins.
>
> Then when I got on her with her little rubber snaffle and my light cues
she
> just melted.......Ms. Jekyll, Phd. emerged and she immediately shot my
friend
> an 'ok now THIS is how you ride a horse and btw you can get lost now'
look.
> Hilarious.  Even my friend had to laughingly admit that she 'sure has got
a
> lot of personality'.
>
> I know this is a generalization, but mares I've met just seem to be really
> smart...(notice I won't say 'smarter'  O :-)  )
> Dare I say....they seem to be almost.......mule-ish???
> Maybe that's why they're known to take better care of themselves at rides.
> Because they know better?
> Could be.
>
>
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