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Shi Niyol is a Navajo name meaning Summer Wind. Shi Niyol is also know at my house as "Mamma horse". Shi Niyol
is my rescue horse. She was running loose in the local city cemetary and was impounded by the Animal Control. After advertising
and contacting the livestock inspector, no one came to claim her. I paid her impound fees and board bill and brought her home.
She was about three years old at the time, and pregnant. She was also already trained for riding. She had her baby Shi Zas
about five months after I brought her home.
After she was through raising her baby, we started to condition for
some competitive trail and endurance rides. Below is a story of one of our rides.
Hello all, A story about my
barefooted mustang and her competitive trail rides. I got up early on Friday morning, finished loading the truck and trailer
and headed out to Pugatory ski area for a competitive trail ride. That was some incredible views and a really nice ride. I
took the little Mustang mare again and she did really good. That ride was physically hard because of the altitude. we went
from about 7000 ft up to over 10,000 ft during the first day ride. There was not a lot of rocks and her barefeet really impressed
a few people. This time she was not the only barefooted horse. Another lady (Judy Mason) had her horse barefooted, but she
had him in the horsesneakers for protection. We did discuss a bit about the barefooted trims and she really wanted to check
out my mares feet. It seems that she has a bit of trouble still with her horse being just a bit off is she takes his feet
down as far as the Strasser guidelines are and still be competitive, so she leaves him a bit long. Then there was another
lady also interested in transiting her horse to barefooted. It looks like we have some good reactions from just going out
and showing people that these horses can do anything that their shod horse can do. Next ride I think Im going to try taking
my mule also as a training for her to be nice and stand tied and get used to the activitiy because I want to start working
her also into the CTR's and showing people that white feet are not really all that soft.
Well after my competitive
trail ride this last weekend, I can tell you that the unnecessary excess material of the frog will just slough right on off
of there with exercise. My mare had a huge area of frog at the beginning of the ride that I had not trimmed off and it was
lower(higher) then the walls at the start of the ride, but by the end of the second 20 mile ride there was a lot of sloughing
that had occured and the frogs were very smooth and flat and definately not above the hoof wall. Before the ride I didn't
trim because I did not know how rocky the area would be. And the mares feet are so hard that soaking and the Hoof Marvel stuff
does not help. Her frogs were like hard plastic to trim before the ride, but on the ride, all the unnecessary material just
fell right out of there leaving a nice flat frog with not much in the way of a cleft in the middle
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Shi Niyol (Summer Wind) 7 year old Bay mare with two white hind
socks and a roan left
fore sock. She is about 14.3 hands. This mare
is broke to ride and is very sane on trails. She has been hobble
trained
and does not spook with things around her legs. She has
competed in two competitive trail rides and placed in one of those.
She is very smooth and has a gait similer to the Peruvian Paso. She
trailers well and stands for hoof trimming,
but I have not use
clippers on her. She is very gentle and easy to handle. She is a bit
hard to catch in the
pasture. SOLD!!!!
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