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Date Posted: 16:32:01 12/30/07 Sun
Author: Muriel
Subject: When to start riding
In reply to: Sandy 's message, "When to start riding" on 11:07:19 12/18/07 Tue

Hi Sandy,
I'll preface this by telling you I am not a trainer, I just own two Friesian geldings. Every thing I've heard or read on the subject of Friesian training says not to start them too early. Friesians mature physically and mentally later than lighter breeds and I would give your filly plenty of time to grow up.

You can do lots of ground training-manners, work in hand, practice with feet, trailers, water and on and on... We lunged our 3 y.o. lightly, and did work in hand, for a year. Then he was backed at 4. (he came supposedly all dressage trained (ha!) from the Netherlands, but I call that 'dutch-broke', and in my opinion, it is just to get them sold.)

If you go back into the archives of this message-board, you will find many posts on this, also. Good luck, Muriel

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