Lipizzan
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Post by Lipizzan on Jun 7, 2014 13:41:44 GMT
This is my mare, the one with the tumor on her nose. She does not have any bit on her, just lounging halter so my dad is having a hard time holding her. That was 3 years ago when she was young. Now sheis still as proud and as teperament as then but much more mannered. We always called her stallion, as she was so proud. View My Video |
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Terry
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Post by Terry on Jun 7, 2014 14:40:35 GMT
I love the way she is flagging her tail. She's beautiful.  My mare, Zena, also seems to think she is a stallion sometimes. She can get a little fiery sometimes.  |
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Lipizzan
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Post by Lipizzan on Jun 7, 2014 14:42:41 GMT
Mares can be difficult sometimes, but we all can be dont we?  |
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Terry
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Post by Terry on Jun 7, 2014 15:16:37 GMT
This is true, but I love my mares and can't imagine things any other way. |
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nhg
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Post by nhg on Jun 7, 2014 17:50:52 GMT
She's gorgeous! Look at her go! My first horse was an arabian mare that I got when I was twelve. She used to rip around with her tail up like that. She was a little bugger, though.
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Post by horselover4life on Jun 7, 2014 17:53:48 GMT
Hormones...
Proud you bet,... but I bet they kick butt when PMS strikes them just like we as human females do....
Well, in my house don't mess when I am "temperamental" ...
You may be minus some skin from my tongue flaying your skin.  
I love the "fiery" attitude of mares {sometimes}...it can be challenging and very rewarding!!
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Lipizzan
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Post by Lipizzan on Jun 7, 2014 18:37:04 GMT
nhg- thank you, most people from america that I talked with about Lipizzans said to me that these horses are lazy and sluggish... Never understand why. h4l- hehhee you have a point |
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Post by 1fatmule on Jun 7, 2014 20:03:56 GMT
THAT is faaarrr from lazy, and sluggish!! she moves beautifully lipizzan |
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Post by horselady on Jun 8, 2014 11:26:17 GMT
She is fiery all right. and smart, she is just having fun with you and yet again proves she can be loving and calm . "Arabians get bad reps also from people that have no clue how smart and loving they can be. so people saying negative things about a particular breed, they just do not know and have not experienced their qualities. Some people feel that a horse with spirit is a horse that does not listen or can not be trained. i know other wise. they keep us on our toes and make us work for their love and affection. again, most horse breeds are like that , aren't they???  |
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Lipizzan
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Post by Lipizzan on Jun 8, 2014 12:09:38 GMT
Very well said horselady. I agree 100%
I hured milion times that arabians are to "hot", yet I have seen arabian stallion being riden on bitless by a 10-year old. It is just the fact that those breed need more patientce and hard work.
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mistersmom
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Post by mistersmom on Jun 9, 2014 12:13:42 GMT
How beautiful. Your father looks like he is quite the horseman trying to calm her down without pulling and yanking and being ugly to her.
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Lipizzan
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Post by Lipizzan on Jun 9, 2014 19:00:17 GMT
Hehe, but she won. She was pulling him like a ragdoll :-P
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hugs
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Post by hugs on Jun 11, 2014 3:19:12 GMT
She is showing all of us how absolutely gorgeous a horse is simply being a horse. There are so many preconceived notions about different breeds, as if they're ALL like that, how stupid, but that's what we do, pigeon-hole people and horses just to have something to say and to sound like we "know" something. I just shake my head. Now Peachie, she's a little patootie compared to your mare, Lipizzan, Peach is maybe 14h standing on her tip-toes, but honest-to-goodness she was just like that when I first got her. I didn't dare put a lead on her, simply brought her into the corral and watched her go. Took her a couple months before she realized I wasn't asking her to do that. Jokes on her. And she's an Appaloosa and exhibits all of the resistance and rebelliousness that Appaloosa's are known for. One time she was being really belligerent, wouldn't move off of pressure, so I decided that if she wanted to stand still, then by golly she was going to stand still for a long, long time. Of course she got tired of it, but I corrected her, directed her back to her spot, tried to get her exactly how she was and then went back to staring at her. I don't know how long we were standing there, but I gotta admit I was actually laughing at her as she got antsy and I would correct even the slightest twitch. So take THAT Peaches!  |
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Lipizzan
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Post by Lipizzan on Jun 11, 2014 6:03:34 GMT
Peaches sounds like a very smart horse. But you know, the horses who gives us so much trouble are actually speak to us "work on me" , "spend time with me" , "get to me know better". That is how I see it. And thank you.
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Post by hugs on Jun 11, 2014 11:07:01 GMT
Lipizzan, that is a very astute observation. Gosh, thank you! When I was home and able to be out there every day, she was a very warm and affectionate horse, still stubborn, but I could tell she was a Nervous Nelly and so I do my best to prepare her for everything step by step.
In fact last night I was talking to Gerald about his attempts to get her to trailer load. He has health issues and is not the most patient person and so thought he could bribe her into the trailer. Which worked, she followed him in, but then he left by the side door and when the door shut, the sound frightened her and she wouldn't get near it again. If that were me I wouldn't of added more to her "work load" than simply getting her in and getting her out. I've told Gerald over and over about Peaches needing step-by-step but I think he thinks its just coddling her and he got angry with me. Which is another issue, a man's ego, so I told him he has no right to get mad at me simply for disagreeing with him. I mean, come on, how egotistical can you be. But his strong sense of self is the other side of that and a part of him I greatly admire.
Anyway, thanks Lipizzan I love your insights.
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Lipizzan
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Post by Lipizzan on Jun 11, 2014 11:26:09 GMT
Hehe,  your husband sounds much like my dad. Man in general (not all but most of them) have less patiante then us woman. Peaches sound like my Gaetana. It took me 3 years to teach Gaetana how to load proper in trailer. She was very scared of it, expecially being alone inside. There is no way you can teach horse something by doing it once. Horse can't racionalize he have to understand what we ask of him. |
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Post by hugs on Jun 23, 2014 21:38:24 GMT
You are so right, Lipizzan, they have to be able to experience it over and over and realize over time, learn, not think it through or rationalize like you said. I think we can know that in principle but forget it in practice.
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My mare, Zena, also seems to think she is a stallion sometimes. She can get a little fiery sometimes. 
your husband sounds much like my dad. Man in general (not all but most of them) have less patiante then us woman. Peaches sound like my Gaetana. It took me 3 years to teach Gaetana how to load proper in trailer. She was very scared of it, expecially being alone inside. There is no way you can teach horse something by doing it once. Horse can't racionalize he have to understand what we ask of him.