Re: Re: Naked Riding

["Joan Dowis" <jrd@foothill.net>]

April,

The easiest way to tell an Indian-made from an Aussie-made saddle is by the
sniff test.  Indian leather smells bad.  I don't know if the smell ever goes
away.  Some saddles are made in India with imported leather, however, which
shouldn't have the smell.  On Australian saddles I've seen, there is usually
a stamped-in logo or name on the underflap, and/or a brass plate somewhere
on the saddle.   Does your saddle have such an I.D.?

Joan Dowis

----- Original Message -----
From: "April Johnson" <ridecamp@jadawn.com>
To: <ridecamp@endurance.net>
Cc: "robert and carla lawson" <robandcarla@hotmail.com>
Sent: Friday, November 30, 2001 4:48 PM
Subject: RC: Re: Naked Riding


> Come on, Carla, now I know you can ride bareback. You just admitted it to
> the world. Ok, RC is NOT the world, but at the moment (icky, slippery,
rainy
> out for 3+ days), it seems that that is all there is. You're going to be
> branded as a bareback rider!!!! Hahaha, your turn to be flamed and told
> you're a horrible horse person. Oh, whoops, I'm going to get flamed for
> that. Oh, well. I can hit the delete key as well as anybody. If worse
comes
> to worse, I'll go away until my hurt feelings are scabbed over and then
> creep back to read the archives, then bravely set my email back to get all
> those wonderful RC messages until I say something somebody screams at me
for
> and then I'll repeat the process.
>
> Carla has converted to bareback riding!!!!
>
> Speaking of bareback, I am free-leasing an Arab. Serts. He's a GREAT
> bareback candidate. I would LOVE to do an LD on him bareback. Much better
> than my Apache (on whom I did 2 LDs -- I know, I know, not endurance --
> bareback once upon a time). Apache's trot was horribly bouncy. But Serts
has
> a trot to die for. Ground covering and perfectly able to ride bareback. I
> think I'm in love (Sorry, hubby). I'd think about doing endurance on him,
> but poor Tanna would be so upset and hurt and besides Serts has that old
> knee injury that might not hold up under the pressure.
>
> Hey, I wonder what kind of comments I'd get if I rode in an endurance (OR
> LD) ride bareback, barefoot (me AND Serts! :) ), with a side pull? Sound
> impossible? Maybe, but it'd sure be fun to see RC's reaction. Maybe I'd
> bring an easy boot to throw at people? Or those dogs running around camp.
> But then again, Serts is death on dogs, so he'd go after those loose dogs.
>
> Carla has converted to bareback riding!!!!
>
> Bareback. I much prefer it. Too bad Tanna's a BIT freaky and
unpredictable.
> What, a young Arabian gelding unpredictable? No way!!!
>
> So I bought an Australian saddle. No naked riding for me. Saddle or no.
Best
> I'd do is barefoot, shorts and a sports bra under a tank top. Anyway,
> anybody got any thoughts on Australian saddles? Seriously. And how do I
tell
> if the one I bought is an Indian made one or an Australian made one?
>
> Carla has converted to bareback riding!!!!
>
> BTW, back to the naked thing...I think my hubby would love a picture of me
> bareback, naked, cantering around. Hmmm...Christmas present? Now who to
get
> to take the picture. No, Howard, I don't need you coming to my rescue.
Hey,
> Carla, you and I can get some nice pics for our hubbies! :) Course, gross,
> for the reasons Carla already articulated. Maybe a skin colored body suit.
> Hmmmmmmm????? Ok, it's only 6:30 here. Feels more like midnight. Carla,
you
> bring out the rambling idiot in me.
>
> Another point. Tanna freaks if I go to get him wearing a shirt he's never
> seen before. If I went out there au natural, I think he'd turn tail and
run
> (as only a gorgeous Arabian can) full speed away from me.
>
> Anyway, I think I'll go find something else to do for awhile.
>
> April
> Tanna
> Serts
>
> PS. Carla has converted to bareback riding!!!!
>
>
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