WHOBAA COMMUNITY MESSAGE FORUM - By digitalcreations

My LAZY stallion and I have just returned home from a show jumping comp where he got second in the low level class..... He actually put some effort and speed in for the jump off LOL....Will post pic when I get it - meanwhile he has just returned home buggered from the comp to find fresh mare blood waiting in his paddock for him!

As the famous Pedrovsky says (famous Waler saying)
"A Waler is not lazy, it just conserves its energy"
had a mare the same - would dodge a show jump, but go like the very clappers across country - and in the ring, belt back to behind lines and - drop the nose.
Another Waler saying (Same Pedro)
:A Waler is not greedy, it just has good survival instincts"

anyway well done and gees, Walers do take the pith out of the whole show scene, or what??!! Proves he's 100% Waler!!!!!
frustrated, laugh, be glad........
good one!!! give him a big kiss and hug

Well he sure does a good job of conserving energy ha ha

And yeah he absolutely loves cross country! Give him a good ole bush race anyday

Wow, I didn't realise that other walers were like that too... Trooper is my first waler (just a 2yo) and I thought he was lazy, 'cos he needs to be pushed on a bit on the flat, but out chasing cows or on the trails it's no problem to make him go!

Yeah found out 3 days ago that Dibs likes to chase things.... Walking lazyly past a mob of cows, he veered towards them and started to canter ha ha... He wanted to get them darn cows

As I found, the more of dem dar darn cows, de more energy de hoss got - mine get on their toes seeing cattle, thinking about big time breakouts, charges, responsibility when they see a mob (even over a fence, embarrassing when out for a quiet ride with mates).

Ho hum. Lazy as, otherwise! Left me standing, literally, spinning after breakways mind you when working cattle!!! Cantered smartly back for me to get aboard when all was duly in order.....and then, and all,......

Broke in a Waler mare 5 years back (well, put the tack on, hopped on the back, did jollies about a big yard for a bit) next day, a mate needed some wild cattle brought in. Hopped on "green" (as grass) young mare, went a way, found cattle, thinking "go bush, old girl!" if horror hits - the mare perked up, galloped, turned them on rain forest hills, pushed up the scrubbers and calves (very healthy cattle), right on the ball, loving it, ...at the end of the day yarded them by pushing some in etc - tired, long the way home, thru thick bush the shortcut, after dark, under falen logs - not a foot wrong.
met a mate up the bush shortly after (half a state away), riding her bareback after a tedious Mountain Cattlemans (the next weekend), her third "backing".
"On the young mare then?"
"Yup."
"Nice, when are you breaking her in?"
"Dunno, must get around to that one day....."
and, I must, but meanwhile, we can saddle up and go anywhere.....er......these Walers do ruin yer, or what??!!.....too old for common sense or is that too old for, what was it? my memory...breaking the hoss in? must get around to that one day, before she's too old....

Yeah, Trooper was amazingly like that to break in too... i took him up to a mates place to use his round yard and after watching me with him for a bit he told me that there wasn't much point in doing all the saddling and bridling work... he asked me when he was broken in last time!!