Re: showing and endurance

[LazyJArabs@aol.com]

thanks. a few people have said they did. maybe we need MORE people to do so in
order to get ALL of us educated and get those better DOING horses back into
the mainstream...

liz
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Subj:	 Re: showing and endurance
Date:	9/10/98 10:39:09 AM Pacific Daylight Time
From:	suendavid@worldnet.att.net (Susan Evans Garlinghouse)
Reply-to:	suendavid@worldnet.att.net
To:	LazyJArabs@aol.com
CC:	ridecamp@endurance.net

LazyJArabs@aol.com wrote:
> 
> anyone actively showing their endurance mount(s) in any halter classes (and
i
> don't necessarily mean at class a level, but ANY level)? are you having any
> success? share your experiences please.
> 
> just curious.
> 
> liz & ariel


This isn't current, but my first endurance horse was an Ansata Shah Zam
son that had been extensively shown in halter up to Regional Top Five
levels before he started endurance.  I did a little NATRC with Mikey and
three 50's before I sold him---not because he wasn't physically able to
do endurance, but because he just didn't really want to be out there. 
He had more of the temperament for just a putter-down-the-trail sort and
that's what he's currently doing.

My Anglo-Arabian youngster, Dakota (sired by Karahty) hasn't been under
saddle yet, but he's showing a bit in AHSA shows in hunter breeding
classes and did well his one time out.  I have several trainers begging
me to let them show him, and as far as you can tell with a two-year-old,
he has everything he will ever need to be a good distance horse---size,
substance, conformation and attitude.  So I don't think a successful
halter horse and a successful endurance horse are by necessity mutually
exclusive concepts---it's not the horses that are the problem in the
show world, it's the politics and attitudes of the people.

Susan G