These women are swimming their Icelandics at the Feddet peninsula in Denmark. I love being able to view the motion of the horses' legs under the water. I always wanted to do this with Blessi. A Icelandic breeding judge told me that Blessi comes from the line of water horses in Iceland. Unfortunately, I forgot the rest of the details.
Wednesday, July 22, 2015
Monday, July 20, 2015
Clapping for attention
I wonder how and why this horse started performing this behavior? Did he imitate his owner? Did his owner reward his for this behavior, perhaps inadvertently? Let's all clap for this entertaining Icelandic.
Friday, July 17, 2015
Challenges of finding a saddle for pony
Just for fun, we took wither tracings of Max, the 11-hand grade pony, versus Tucker the 16 hand muscled Quarter horse, and Diesel, the 17 hand Paint stallion. Max's wither tracing displays at the top of the photo. As you can see, Max had the u-shaped withers typical of the pony. Diesel and Tucker have V-shaped withers.
Max's gullet width measured three inches down from the top of the withers was 9.5 inches versus 6.5 and 6 inches for Diesel and Tucker respectively. Blessi's saddles fit Max through the shoulders--even though they were way too long for Max's back. Another illustration of why saddle fit can be so challenging.
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