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Then I have high hopes for my young mare I'm starting
this spring. She's a purebred Arab, but built like a
tank!

chris
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> Re: [RC] Tyfa Mynte--Becky Harris - heidi
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> > In a message dated 1/27/2005 3:19:10 P.M. Eastern
> Standard Time,
> > heidi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
> >
> > She also  has a pedigree that just screams
> "ENDURANCE!"
> > And if you saw her, Honey that is, she couldn't
> look less like an
> > endurance   horse.  But man is she.  I personally
> don't like to ride
> > mares, there  can be  only one alpha bitch (guess
> I'm it) but Honey
> > would change your  mind.  She  doesn't look like a
> horse that can do 10
> > hour or less 100's, but  she does.  She  is short,
> chunky, but tough as
> > nails.
> Gee, sounds to me like the very sort of horse that I
> WOULD pick for the
> sport.  And once again, the short chunky horse
> proves that that is what it
> takes.  (Rio was kind of short and chunky, too...)
>
> Heidi
>
> Amen, Heidi.  The gelding I ride is also short,
> chunky, but 
> very solid (he's done reasonably well in his
> still-fledgling 
> endurance career.)  Lot's of CMK/Polish in his
> pedigree.
> At his first endurance ride, I had many friends come
> up to 
> me and say, "That's your new endurance horse, eh? 
> He's kind 
> cute, but I don't know about endurance."  Since his
> first ride 
> he's completed 2 100's  and didn't take the full 24
> hrs to do 
> it either (not too shabby for my short, chunky
> little boy!)
> I'd take a shorter, sturdy mount over a tall, leggy
> one any
> day (not to mention that I'm only 5'2"!)
> Karen
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