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mart

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Re: Can someone help me identify this rocking horse?
« Reply #30 on: June 02, 2011, 07:33:37 pm »
I think they thought that the normally calm draft breeds would quiet down the mustang as well as add size !! 16.5 was a good size horse !! Mine are smaller around 15 hh !! I am only 5' 1" so I like them close to the ground !! I rode at the rodeo during my younger days !! I lived next door to the Mesquite Championship Rodeo and spent all my weekends there !!   Had a blast back then !!

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Re: Can someone help me identify this rocking horse?
« Reply #31 on: June 03, 2011, 08:47:07 am »
I am tall, 5'-10" and Cocoa, the TB/qtr above was 15.5 hands. She was just right for me. My first job was as a riding instructor for a local stable. I taught English, Western, basics and a little bit of beginning vaulting. I used to do vaulting, jumping and a little bit of the gymkhana stuff, but not too much gymkhana. Loved trail riding most of all, much more so than anything in the arena.
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Re: Can someone help me identify this rocking horse?
« Reply #32 on: June 03, 2011, 09:42:37 am »
I'm 6' and for years rode a 15.2 Palamino, built like an armchair! The dapple grey was an Arab... They look slight, but although I'm probably also considered 'slight' they can take a hefty rider!

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Re: Can someone help me identify this rocking horse?
« Reply #33 on: June 03, 2011, 12:22:40 pm »
I have a half Arab dapple gray !! She is 7 and is not all the way yet but she is getting there. Also have a flea bitten gray, a bay, 2 paints and a buckskin !!  They are my babies !!

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Re: Can someone help me identify this rocking horse?
« Reply #34 on: June 03, 2011, 12:49:23 pm »
That's an impressive little stable you've got there .. All I have now are chickens!  ;D

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Re: Can someone help me identify this rocking horse?
« Reply #35 on: June 03, 2011, 12:56:17 pm »
Yep !!  They keep me busy and out of trouble !!  Figure at my age I need to stay active so between the horses and two good size gardens I should live to at least 62 !! ( I am 61 now !! LOL)