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Re: RC: RC: Re: Endurance Bloodlines



Hi Maria
That really warms my heart to hear about your Egyptian breeder. I sure
wish he'd put on a workshop at the Great Egyptian Event and convince
other owners that their horses can still be beautiful and do something
useful, not to mention keep their sanity by putting their minds and
bodies to work. When we briefly showed halter it broke my heart to see
how the horses were treated in the barns. Even if they were lucky enough
not to get whipped at night or cattle prodded behind closed doors, they
still lived a life in a stall, only let out daily for 15-20 minutes of
exercise (many times the treadmill) and never let out with other horses
lest they get injured. Then later they were put in draw reins so that
their noses touched their chest for an hour before a class so that their
heads would stay low enough (and behind the perpendicular) to win a
western pleasure class to qualify for Regionals and Nationals. Very
little affection shown to most of them. That's why we stopped showing
anything but amateur owner until Jeff convinced us to give the show ring
another chance at Scottsdale in 94--- nothing had changed. Hence our
interest in endurance.
Oops, didn't mean to get on such a soapbox, just very vivid unpleasant
memories of halter classes, welt marks on babies and one awful night of
myself and my young children discovering a trainer late at night beating
his halter horse, getting him "ready" for a class the next day. I know
there are abuses in any discipline, endurance included, but I've never
found such terrible abuses as in halter and that is where most of the
Egyptians go. Hooray for Mark!
Bette

GoldenCMK@aol.com wrote:
> 
> In a message dated 12/25/99 11:15:14 AM Pacific Standard Time,
> woa@stormnet.com writes:
> 
> << I wish more people who have Egyptians had your philosophy. Most of the
>  people who have Egyptians never even break them to ride  >>
> 
> Though I breed CMK horses I have the utmost respect for Mark Mayo who raises
> Straight Egyptians and has for many, many yrs. Mark Mayo has a working cattle
> ranch in Beaver, Oklahoma and he uses his horses. He had put on the most
> wonderful "Ultimate Trail Horse" demo I have ever seen at the 1997 CMK/Al
> Khamsa Showcase in Texas. He went through a custom designed trail course
> which included shooting a gun, walking over a seesaw bridge with balloons
> underneath that popped has he walked across, picked up live chickens out of a
> barrel and carried them among other amazing things. Then Mr Mayo removed ALL
> the tack from his horse and repeated the course completely tackless!
> 
> My farrier, Larry,  happen to grow up next to Mark Mayo and his father also
> had a working cattle ranch.  Larry told me in the spring when neighbors got
> together for branding and shots and whatever that Mark would work all day on
> one horse and the following day where everyone else went through 6 horses a
> day. Impressed all those old cowboys...
> 
> Maria Wallis
> CMK Arabian Horses
> My Golden Farm
> www.geocities.com/goldencmk
> <A HREF="http://www.geocities.com/goldencmk/OurHorses.html"> </A>
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