> MM :>Ahhh, ok well Malla is a 86 model.
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> Just to let you know how fast time really flies....Fiddle will be 5 this
> year!
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 BK> Yeow!  TIme to get serious with her this year.
 
     You know, I am wondering if there is anything written in stone about 
this.  We worked Casey very lightly till he was four or five as we were 
concerned about his legs.  They're really stout, but he is still a cob.
J.D. lost interest in his horse for about 3 years, so I worked him 
occasionally.  Ralph has borrowed him and worked with him a bit this year, 
but when we took him on the trail ride last week we were all very surprised 
at what a nice little horse he had turned out to be.
     Casey was less mature at 7 than my first horse, a POA off the range, was 
at 2.  I am guessing that you grow up faster when you live out on the range 
than you do when you are almost a backyard pet, like Casey is/has been all 
his life.  Do you think I could have "made" him mature faster if I had worked 
with him more instead of concentrating on Dub and Spot?
     BTW, I understand how nice it must be to work with Tush - no bad habits 
picked up from previous owners.  I look around sometimes and think that Casey 
is the only horse around here who has never needed any kind of 
martingale...he hasn't learned yet that bits can HURT you.  ;)
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