| Subject: Umm, Dana, Peaches is mine. I unquit. |
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Meghan
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Date Posted: 14:10:49 09/09/02 Mon
In reply to:
Dana
's message, "Riding Peaches N' Cream western" on 12:46:34 09/09/02 Mon
>I walked into the barn & grabbed a nylon lead rope off
>of one of my horses stalls.I walked down to one of the
>various mares pastures @ Timeless Farm & let myself
>in.I walked over to a palomino QH mare named Peaches
>N' Cream.Peaches rubbed on me as I clipped a lead rope
>to her halter.I let her since she didn't have any tack
>on.I had found that Peaches rubbed against just about
>anyone.This included other horses.I patted the pretty,
>6 y/o mare & led her up to the mares barn.I put
>Peaches in her stall & walked to the tack room.I
>grabbed a grooming tote, a western trail/show/
>pleasure saddle, a silver plated breastplat & a
>regular western bridle.I carried all of this back to
>Peaches stall, & started grooming the beautiful,
>golden colored mare.Peaches enjoyed being groomed &
>relaxed.When I haf finished grooming Peaches, I put on
>her tack.Peaches was good about being saddled, and
>took the bit when she felt it being pushed into her
>mouth.Peaches had excellent ground manners, & was good
>about practically everything.After I had led Peaches
>to the arena & had lunged her for about 15 minutes, I
>mounted her.I kept my reins long & loose, and relaxed
>into the saddle, but still sat up and kept my
>shoulders straight.Peaches barely needed a squeeze
>toget her to walk.The 15.2 hand mare kept her neck
>staight & down, and moved like a western horse
>should.I walked the QH maref or a couple of minutes
>before gently squeezing her into a western
>dog-trot.Peaches had smooth, slow movement, & her
>stride was very easy to sit to.After a few laps of
>dog-trotting in both directions, I got Peaches to pick
>up a jog.After a while of jogging, I had her pick up
>the faster trot, & did that with her for a while
>before loping & cantering in both directions.Then I
>worked on backing up with her, which she did
>perfectly, & took her on a quick trail ride so Peaches
>could cool off.After the quick trail ride, I
>dismounted & led the palomino QH mare back up to the
>stable where I untacked her, fed her a carrot & the
>led her down to her pasture.In the same pasture, were
>her old pasture mates from when Meghan had owned her,
>a dapple grey TB mare named Silver Sparkles, & a sandy
>chestnut Dutch Warmblood mare named Double-Dutch, or
>Dutchess for short.I unclipped the navy blue &
>burgandy colored lead rope from Peaches leather halter
>& set her free in the pasture.Then I walked back up to
>the stable to clean my tack with leather cleaner.
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