Horse Show!

[Toby's my baby]

My mom would work with the horse while I'm in college. I feel the horse should learn all the ground work, lunging and long lining. Then the horse needs some time to grow and develop and be a young horse before it is broke for riding. I do not mean it would be thrown out in to a field and forgotten about for four years.
We may not breed her as there are a lot of factors to consider. She would be 20 years old and is a maiden mare. There is a good chance that we won't be able to get her pregnate. There is also the chance she or the foal wouldn't make it.
Trust me, making this decision is not being taken lightly.

O, ok, I thought you meant you would just put her out to pasture for 4 years. That was probably really stupid of me to think that, but I just wanted to make sure. I love horses, as most of us here do, and I wouldn't want anything bad to happen to mom or baby, or YOU! Good luck with whatever desision you make!

When you show dressage you do a test where there are movements you have to preform at the different letters. As you progress up the level you require to preform more difficult movements. Each movement is judge on a scale of one to ten. 10s are quite rare. The precentage is detiremined by the number of points possible and the number of points you received. Anything in the 60s range and higher is considered very good. Anky Von Grusvan received a 86% in her Grand Prix Freestyle, which is ver impressive.

I get it now! Well sounds like you did an excellent job then!!