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RE: [RC] Shoes and slipping - RaeSome asphalt gets a sealant on it - this stuff is very slippery to shod horses, while unsealed asphalt is not. I've got several driveways to cross on my way to the creek and it's easy to tell the sealed ones and I'll swerve out into the unsealed road to avoid them. Rae Tall C Arabians - Central Region Life isn't like a box of chocolates...it's more like a jar of jalapenos.What you do today, might burn your bum tomorrow. Photos: http://community.webshots.com/user/niepe -----Original Message----- From: ridecamp-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ridecamp-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Truman Prevatt Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2007 3:29 PM To: Sheila_Larsen@xxxxxxx Cc: ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: [RC] Shoes and slipping One popular ride around here is to ride about 10 to 15 miles through the forest to a small town restaurant for breakfast. There is about a half mile walk from where you come out of the woods to the restaurant to down a paved road. The road is not busy - you seldom see a vehicle. On my old walking horse mare, I would usually just ride her down the road at a walk but sometime we would gait. One day I meet up with my endurance buddies on their Arabs and we head up. I just trot on out of the woods and down the road. They start yelling. I turn around and their horses are slipping and sliding around on the pavement. I stop, they get off and lead their horses down the side of the road. I stay on and walk on down. When I rode the Jbird there the first time, he came on the pavement and it was like ice skating - so I got off pretty quickly. I think a lot of how a horse handles slick footing is a function of the horse. The old mare had very quick feet, a quiet upper body was extremely sure footed in slick going. She was almost like a ballerina in tough footing, from pavement to mud uphill, downhill or on the flat. She always kept her balance and her center of gravity (even with a rider aboard) in balance. She had an amazing talent for doing that. I've ridden a lot of horses in my few years on this earth and have never ridden one that was good at that as she was. Truman =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net. Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/Ridecamp Subscribe/Unsubscribe http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/logon.asp Ride Long and Ride Safe!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
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