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With my babies I like to get on them 5 or even 6 days a week, the one who aren't quite finished I will ride 3 or 4 days a week, but with my finished ones I will maybe actually school them once a week.
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EVA, I honestly was thinking today that Arabs must be the easiest horses in the world to break. I really don't get how so many people hate them. I'm all with what Fetlock is saying. My finished horses get breezed some days, trail ridden, free lunged in an arena, and maybe schooled for 15 minutes once a week. It just seems to keep them a lot more game come show time. most of my schooling is done between the yearling colt and yearling filly pastures. Talk about getting ears on those English horses, blinkers are overrated
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CaliArabgrl wrote: EVA, I honestly was thinking today that Arabs must be the easiest horses in the world to break. I really don't get how so many people hate them. I'm all with what Fetlock is saying. My finished horses get breezed some days, trail ridden, free lunged in an arena, and maybe schooled for 15 minutes once a week. It just seems to keep them a lot more game come show time. most of my schooling is done between the yearling colt and yearling filly pastures. Talk about getting ears on those English horses, blinkers are overrated
Because most of the time the horse is smarter than the rider?
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AFPhoenix wrote: CaliArabgrl wrote: EVA, I honestly was thinking today that Arabs must be the easiest horses in the world to break. I really don't get how so many people hate them. I'm all with what Fetlock is saying. My finished horses get breezed some days, trail ridden, free lunged in an arena, and maybe schooled for 15 minutes once a week. It just seems to keep them a lot more game come show time. most of my schooling is done between the yearling colt and yearling filly pastures. Talk about getting ears on those English horses, blinkers are overrated Because most of the time the horse is smarter than the rider?
I think that is very true! I have found that a lot of people that don't like Arabs (not everyone!) really can't handle how smart they are. You can't pick on them or use abusive methods or they WILL react.
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EagleViewArabians wrote: AFPhoenix wrote: CaliArabgrl wrote: EVA, I honestly was thinking today that Arabs must be the easiest horses in the world to break. I really don't get how so many people hate them. I'm all with what Fetlock is saying. My finished horses get breezed some days, trail ridden, free lunged in an arena, and maybe schooled for 15 minutes once a week. It just seems to keep them a lot more game come show time. most of my schooling is done between the yearling colt and yearling filly pastures. Talk about getting ears on those English horses, blinkers are overrated Because most of the time the horse is smarter than the rider? I think that is very true! I have found that a lot of people that don't like Arabs (not everyone!) really can't handle how smart they are. You can't pick on them or use abusive methods or they WILL react.
I just got my yearling arab last week, never had an arab before (I'm a QH person), and boy is he different. He's so bold, he'll spook at something, then go up and touch it, then it will move and he will spook, then he'll go up to it again. So different, yet he's just so fun to be around, and LOVES being groomed, he barely knows how to lead but as soon as you start grooming him he won't move an inch. I just can't get over how cute he is either .
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Kind of agree with this, I ride eventers up to Intermediate level, they are certainly never finished. I school 5-6 times a week, either over fences or on the flat. However, I also ride show horses (English), what you would call Hunters, I would call working hunters (over fences). The over fences horses are never finished, the show hunters (on the flat) ARE finished and need keeping sweet. I don't really school them more than once a week. It may be the same for your Western horses.
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