Found this video on YouTube. It's beautiful!
Showing posts with label rides. Show all posts
Showing posts with label rides. Show all posts
Monday, March 10, 2008
Wednesday, August 22, 2007
Horses in My Youth
Welsh Pony stallion at the Woodland Park Zoo(I used to love riding the ponies there as a child)
My cousin Jean's two POA ponies, Poke & Shiver(she did endurance rides with Poke)
Shiver & Poke
Red & me (a horse kept temporarily behind my friend Sharri's house)
Melody (QH) & Mrs. Baker and Sandy (grade) & me in the Sol Duc River.
(Both horses were owned by The Bakers.)
Sandy & me
Sandy & me
Ole Paint & me on a cattle drive in ColoradoCamp Horses From My Youth
Gypsy & me and Dolly & Linda (my sister-in-law) at Kelly's Ranch
Fairy Princess (at age 2) of Kelly's Ranch.(Beautiful chestnut half-Arab that died of colic at age 4.
I rode her only once.)
Morning Star & me, Princess's unplanned filly (age 2)that was orphaned
(Arabian/Pony mix)
Kelly's Ranch's Stormy & me(I wished I could buy him. Sire was Abadee, below.)
Abadee & me(Dappled chestnut Arabian stallion bred to 4 of Kelly's mares in 1968)
Welsh Mountain Ponies Chic & Queen at Camp Sambica
Dixie (out of Chic), Queen & Princess (out of Queen)
from Camp Sambica
Benny from Camp Sambica (yearling pony)
(A very calm colt out of Chic)
Starblaze & me from Camp Sambica
(Very sweet pony, out of Chic, that ran fast!)
Queen & me from Camp Sambica
(She truely was the queen of the herd, was trained
to pull a wagon, and trotted fast! Comfortable to ride bareback,
but very hard to get into a canter.)
Peruvian Paso Test Ride
Multi-Champion Peruvian Paso gelding Diamante Del Monte MPR & me.(my dream test ride that I was fortunate to take after meeting a lady at a show who knows Monte's owners)
July of 2005 was a special, real horse month for me. Along with turning 50 and having a fun getaway weekend and trail ride in the country, I also attended my first Gaited Horse Show in Puyallup, WA. The horses were amazing! There were Mountain Horses (Rocky & Kentucky), Missouri Fox Trotters, flat-shod Tennessee Walkers, Icelandic Horses, Gaited Morgans, and Peruvians, showing in all types of disciplines.
There I met a lady in the audience who owns a Peruvian Paso, but didn't have her horse at the show. I asked her a lot of questions about them, since I had read they are the smoothest horses to ride. The breed has a natural, lateral 4-beat gait that's like a running walk. Most horse breeds have a diagonal 2-beat gait (trot), which causes you to bounce a lot in the saddle. They are very hardy, used for ranch work and trail riding, with boundless stamina and energy. I've always wanted to try one out to test for bounce in the saddle and ease on your back.
Terry told me she would be at the Northwest Regional Peruvian Horse Championships in Monroe, WA the next day, and knew some people there that might let me have a "test ride" on one of their horses. So hubby and I went out there in the afternoon, watched the championship finals, and then met some people and horses in the barn. After the show, they let me ride one of their horses, Diamante Del Monte MPR, a former champion gelding.
He was very well trained, almost going on "auto pilot", yet responsive to what I asked him to do. They did have to give me some pointers on holding the reins differently than I've done my whole life, and also sitting more relaxed and back in the saddle. Any type of leg pressure will result in the horse responding in some way, such as turning, speeding up or starting up from a standstill. He was also very sensitive to whatever I did with the reins, so holding them at the proper level and distance from his neck was something I would need more practice at, but by the 4th time around the practice arena, I was told I was doing well.
It was really fun! An amazing experience not everyone gets the chance to have, and a good ride. If I had just known how to collect him better, it would have been a great ride.
Below are links to some web page photos of Diamante on his ranch in Bend, OR. He's a very dark bay, but not quite black. I was riding him with the traditional lightweight Peruvian saddle with bell stirrups, and a hand braided leather bridle. Very pretty!
There I met a lady in the audience who owns a Peruvian Paso, but didn't have her horse at the show. I asked her a lot of questions about them, since I had read they are the smoothest horses to ride. The breed has a natural, lateral 4-beat gait that's like a running walk. Most horse breeds have a diagonal 2-beat gait (trot), which causes you to bounce a lot in the saddle. They are very hardy, used for ranch work and trail riding, with boundless stamina and energy. I've always wanted to try one out to test for bounce in the saddle and ease on your back.
Terry told me she would be at the Northwest Regional Peruvian Horse Championships in Monroe, WA the next day, and knew some people there that might let me have a "test ride" on one of their horses. So hubby and I went out there in the afternoon, watched the championship finals, and then met some people and horses in the barn. After the show, they let me ride one of their horses, Diamante Del Monte MPR, a former champion gelding.
He was very well trained, almost going on "auto pilot", yet responsive to what I asked him to do. They did have to give me some pointers on holding the reins differently than I've done my whole life, and also sitting more relaxed and back in the saddle. Any type of leg pressure will result in the horse responding in some way, such as turning, speeding up or starting up from a standstill. He was also very sensitive to whatever I did with the reins, so holding them at the proper level and distance from his neck was something I would need more practice at, but by the 4th time around the practice arena, I was told I was doing well.
It was really fun! An amazing experience not everyone gets the chance to have, and a good ride. If I had just known how to collect him better, it would have been a great ride.
Below are links to some web page photos of Diamante on his ranch in Bend, OR. He's a very dark bay, but not quite black. I was riding him with the traditional lightweight Peruvian saddle with bell stirrups, and a hand braided leather bridle. Very pretty!
(Click center arrow below to play video)
Monday, August 20, 2007
Lucky & me
Young Paint mare at Walking D Ranch
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