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Windmere
Mocha lives in Ontario, Canada. He performs well in trail classes,
halter and hunter-jumper. Mocha is also used for pleasure trail
riding. The fact that he excels at so many activities earned him IMBA’s
Bronze Life-Time Achievement Program award (LAAP) and the Hearst
Memorial Performance Award for 2003.
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Morab
horses are ideal trail horses. The Morgan-Arabian parentage provides
strength and unusually strong feet, while their excellent
pulmonary-respiratory system and long, lean muscles dissipate heat
quickly to allow traveling long distances. Their short backs, which
have one less set of vertebrae than most other breeds, allows for a
comfortable ride for both rider and horse. Morabs are used very
successfully for pleasure riding, cross country in three-day eventing,
orienteering riding, in trail and obstacle classes at shows, and as pack
horses. Morabs have a great work ethic and seem to be able to travel
all types of terrain and conditions without tiring or losing
confidence. They are usually well-balanced, athletic and fast
learners. They often draw attention to themselves first by their beauty
and then later demand respect by their significant accomplishments.
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Bostik (barn name Cruiser) is walking along Lewis Road in Olmsted
Township, Ohio, just outside the Cleveland Metroparks Rocky River
Reservation. Cruiser has an appropriate name because he can really
cruise on the trail using his “mega trot.”
Cruiser is featured in
the Morab Perspective column, “Riding the Trails with Judi,” and
also in the book, Trail Training for the Horse and Rider by Judi
Daly.
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Astralindy Layne (Lindy), Miss Mahougany (Missy), and Aprilis (April)
help pack in and take down a Wyoming hunting camp
every year.
The photo shows them packing in on October 18, 2003.
Later in December when they went back to take the hunting camp down,
heavy snowfalls made it extra challenging but these Morab ladies did
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Parades may not be considered as trail riding by some but the number of
strange sights and sounds in the parade and along the parade route are
as frightening as any natural trail could be. Windmere Sparkler, the
gray Morab gelding, takes it all in stride.
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Menora Silver Sprite is used for trail riding at her home in near
Victoria, Australia. Camp drafting and endurance riding may also be in
her future. Sprite is smart, sensible and was easy to train.
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LM Ark Three Smokey +++GA received his Gold LAAP from the International
Morab Breeders’ Association on January 1, 2001. Smokey amassed an
incredible number of hours and miles of pleasure trail riding in the
beautiful country surrounding Triple G Creek Farm near New Haven,
Missouri.
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The
International Morab Breeders Association
invites you to visit other
websites regarding Trail riding:
Horse Trails & Camp Ground Directory:
http://www.horsetraildirectory.com/
Check your state and county park systems for horse trails.
Our
THANKS to Jane Licht, for designing this page.
Please
her know of other good Trail sites, and about good quality
trail photos of your Morab that you would like to share. |
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