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Started by Vickie Lawson. Last reply by Jackie Cochran May 30, 2015.

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Comment by Cindy Jeffery on March 9, 2010 at 4:15pm
Big dreams are wonderful if you got the big bucks to finance them. Dreams include goal setting and making those baby steps to get to where you want to go. Sometimes those steps get larger and sometimes smaller throughout the process. If the money isn't there than the work is a lot harder and perseverance is key. To make the dream work sometimes it means living on a "shoe string".
Comment by Linda White on March 9, 2010 at 9:05am
Jan - great for you to give that woman such a terrific experience. Yay - another convert!
Comment by vickie lawson on March 9, 2010 at 3:02am
i agree jan! if you don't dream big, how will you make even small progresses with your horse. i planned on going to the nationals, and i qualified both young horses for hoy-the largest horse show in australasia. and it wouldn't have happened without a big dream, big ambition and confidence. i love it!!
Comment by Jan Jollymour on March 8, 2010 at 10:31pm
Speaking of mileage...I've been having a wonderful week with a 54 year old small animal vet who started riding at 50 (her lifelong dream). She came up here to ride for a week with me, and she's been on all of our horses, from Para Grade IV to GP. She's a terrific person, very motivated and enjoyable! She flies home on Wednesday to put into practice what she's learned with her Andalusian/TB cross mare.

MJ made a commitment to learning which included a week away from her practice and her life, but it's paid off in spades. She is now a much more relaxed and effective rider, with more confidence in her own feel and abilities. It took a lot of organizing for her to put this together, but the experience has been worth the effort, on all fronts.

It is essential to dream, and dream big. You will not find the ways to make experiences possible without the dreams to drive the ways....
Comment by vickie lawson on March 6, 2010 at 12:55am
hey no problem! sic2-- we have won national accumulator awards as well at national titles, with our cheaper bought/bred horses and not campaigning them hard out. we choose our shows carefully, get the qualifying scores, and that's what counts. i think low mileage helps prevent injuries to some extent as well. and i also think, some horses may be more prone to injury, stress on their legs, hence, the point you are making re excessive mileage. arabs for example have good legs and feet generally, whereas, our new zealand tb;s are known for poor hooves generally.
Comment by Ellin McGinley Daum on March 5, 2010 at 8:42pm
My mother is fast approaching 91 years of age and still lives on her own and drives a car (only in daylight). She is quick witted, interested in everything and up to date on current events. Age is in each living creatures genetic structure. I'm sure we can shorten it by making bad decisions, but it is inevitably beyond our control.
Comment by Linda White on March 5, 2010 at 7:50pm
No, no, I didn't think that at all. I just find it curious that anyone would think there are a set limited amount of miles legs can travel. That's like believing there are an allotted number of heartbeats - no more, no less. I guess the analogy would be life span. You might read that the average North American woman has a life span of 80.4 years, but this is an average that can span from, say, 60 yrs to 100 yrs. Genetics, environment, socio-economic status, exercise, lifestyle - all these things add to or take away from the length of time we are likely to live. No one is saying you will live 80.4 yrs and that's it. You might be able to stretch it out to 100 yrs if you live right and chose the right ancestors. And you might only make it to 50 if you have a rough life and/or bad luck. But the number of years is flexible, not set in stone.
Comment by Linda White on March 5, 2010 at 5:56pm
But I know horses that are ridden constantly and taken well care of, and again I'm thinking about endurance horses, that are fabulous looking in their late twenties and, while not about to do a 100, are raring to go down the trail. I think it's more likely a horse will not keep going if he's not used regularly and not kept in shape. It's the heart and lungs that have to keep healthy and strong and that comes about by exercise. Sure you can wreck a horse by overjumping it or by running it on pavement or rock, but that's all about the misuse of a horse, not caring for its welfare. I think we all have a molecular clock (Hayflick limit) but I don't think there is any one body part that has a preprogrammed number of hours of operation. I'd like to see the research that indicates there is.
Comment by Cindy Jeffery on March 5, 2010 at 1:24pm
Just wading in again... I think that with proper management ie feed, exercise, tack, horses shouldn't get "used up" and should be in service for a long time, some to the end of their lives. While it is true that constant concussion on hard services can cause extreme damage in some cases, for the most part, they remain strong and healthy with proper management.
Comment by Linda White on March 5, 2010 at 12:43pm
Not starting an argument here but where does the comment horses have an odometer in their legs and when we use it up it's used up.come from? How does that explain endurance horses that do 100s, maybe 1000s of miles? Wouldn't that predict they'd all be shot by age 9 or 10? Just curious.
 

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