Re: [RC] some folks dont speak arabian/jigging horse - Truman Prevatt
No Heidi, sorry, I've been out west on her and seen elk a couple 100
feet away as we came up out of a canyon at Rich Childes wonderful ride
in CO she looked at - said not problem and off we go. She came on
several bear - stopped looked at them and they resolved the issue the
bear went on their way and we went on ours. We had an encounter with a
FL panther or two and she has jumped a 12 foot gator across the trail
to go catch an Arab that spooked into the swamp (dumping her rider in
the swamp) when the saw the gartor. Arabs are nice horses - but give me
the mare any day of the week.
You can ride your Arabs if you want - that's up to you. But if my live
depended on it - I would not be riding an Arab. That just that simple.
If Arabs were so good the Ottoman empire would not have crumbled ;-)!
But he will never match up to the mare as a good
stable trail mount and neither will any Arab I've seen.
Sorry you've never seen a good one, Truman. Ours spot elk 2 hills
over--they don't get goofy about it--but they sure tell us they're there.
I sure appreciated that attentiveness when I used to ride for cattle--I
could ride down a ridge and watch my Arab's ears, and if he gave a curious
look down in the draw, I knew I had to ride down there for a cow. If he
didn't, then there weren't any down there. I rarely missed any, just
going by my horses' say-so.
There is a reson the Arab has the reputation it does and it's not
because everyone is biased.
They have the bad rep because of what a few idiots have done in the name
of breeding show champions. Same thing with TWHs--the old-style ones bred
to work are good horses, the show variety isn't worth the powder to blow
it away. But with the Arabs, too many folks look at the pedigrees and
bliss out over the "famous names" in there, and think they got something
nifty--and if they are worth 2 cents, it's because they took after the
horses in there they never heard of...
Heidi
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