Re: Dubai - Valerie

[BMcCrary27@aol.com]

In a message dated 12/11/98 12:37:19 PM Pacific Standard Time, lbm@ici.net
writes:

<< She said that the very best horses they have trained
 in their barn have been slightly lazy horses.  That is, the best horses
 have not been the real gung-ho, go-go, charge-em prancers, but horses
 that you had to push a little bit to keep them going.  That the best
 horses are horses with some innate sense of self-preservation and pacing
 who do not want to burn the candle at both ends on their way to the
 finish, and who tend to hold out a little for themselves from their
 riders. >>


I believe I have just the horse coming along.  He's a 6 year old half-brother
to Wendy Merendini's Fire Mt. Flikka and he's a bit of a dogger around home.
He's nowhere near to being in condition yet, hasn't even done his first 50.
The one noticeably remarkable thing about him is his low respiration rate,
even after trotting up a steep hill.  It's been that way all his life.  Only
time will tell . . . . . . 

BMc