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Posted 9/27/2008 6:49:28 PM


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i know there's been a lot, but there's way too many topics in the other ones.

so how fast can you go?

i can gallop as fast as Cinnamon can go with my hands outstretched and not hanging onto the reins.

haha. that's like the one bragging right i have xD.

 

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Posted 9/27/2008 9:04:12 PM


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Gallop & Jump.

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Posted 9/27/2008 9:30:07 PM


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Canter and jump.

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Posted 9/28/2008 5:55:39 AM


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canter. Comanche can't jump anymore, and i don't trust any other horse enough to try bareback yet.

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Posted 9/28/2008 2:37:37 PM


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gallop&jump. but not for a while cus I ride a 3 year old right now :)

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Posted 9/28/2008 3:20:23 PM


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Trot, but that was in the summer!!!

         

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Posted 9/28/2008 5:39:14 PM


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I can gallop (Revs gallop everybody elses handgallop) and jump like 2'9 I'm pretty sure, it might only be 2'7 or 2'8 the cross country jumps have kinda gotten smaller I think.

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Posted 9/28/2008 6:54:37 PM


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I can do pretty much everything bareback on Flicka that I do on him with a saddle. I've jumped up to 2'9", trail ridden & jumped, cantered, hand galloped, all that stuff. I stay on his rears and bucks bareback, and he rears A LOT when he gets excited, which is usually always when I'm on him bareback. I think I galloped on him once, it's kinda hard to tell on him when his short strides, and it was going back towards the barn in the field. I wanted to see if he'd do it, because he like won't gallop with a saddle on, pretty much ever. Except on the trail. Haha.

I've only trotted and cantered a bit on Lex bareback. He back is horrible though, it's just like his bone you're sitting on since he's a skinny TB, which makes it terribly uncomfortable for the rider, and I'd imagine for him too. So I really don't usually ride him bareback.

I've trotted Duncan bareback. He's too much of a spaz to canter or jump bareback, or trot really. Especially since he is the bounciest horse like ever. Ugh. He flips out. But over the winter, when I couldn't really ride because of the ice and snow, I kept him from going really wild by getting on him bareback or on top of his blanket, and riding him up and down the little aisle ish thing outside our stalls, it's covered by a lege thing, and like 36ft long and only around 4ft wide. I rode him in a halter at night, either before or after I fed them, while I was on the phone, a lot of the time. It got him more chill with doing random stuff, by trotting him up and down, and turning him on his butt. That's also how I taught him and also Flicka to kinda neck rein, since they had no where else to go, they really respected my leg and turned on a dime with the rein against their neck.

And like any other pony or whatever I ride bareback that's not mine, I usually canter and jump it. I also ride my aunt's TWH bareback and did a running walk lol.

Haha alright enough rambling...but here's a picture of the aisleish thing:




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