~*~To those who reviewed for the first Chapter~*~
To HShuler888, crazycatlady, thumpet and everyone else who reviewed. To tell you all the truth I didn't expect anyone to read it, let alone review on it. But I'm not complaining. Thank you all.
Here are some of your reviews that I felt like replying on.
**From: Pickzee** While white horses exist there are, I think, three registered white horses that currently alive. What you have written for white also applies to creams and in some case's albinos. Trust me there are two creams at my old barn and they are never ever called white. A better way to say a white would either be cream or "a horse whose coat was so light it looked white." Besides, whites, creams, albinos, and light grays don't stay 'near white' for long. You should also put in something about tack and riding horses, some of the most heinous breaches of horse writing etiquette were about riding and the use of tack. Another good piece like this is in Karthurian9's column, I can't remember what it's called but it is very factual. One more thing a filly or colt isn't just a foal, a foal is only up to a year old, a colt or filly is up through their three's. rn *Scurries away, afraid of being hit with a frying pan*
**Lady Arabian Knight** When you refer to a horse as white, the horse has a pink skin and white fur, compared to a gray or cream colored horse that has a dark skin and light fur. You know how on a paint, like a black and white. The black fur has dark skin underneath it and the white fur has pink skin underneath it. Therefore it's a black and "white" not a black and gray/cream. It's the same for a gray and white paint. The fur is all light colored, but where the fur is mixed with darker hairs, the skin underneath is black, and where the fur is all white the skin underneath is pink. But there always a horse hear and there that becomes an acceptation.
I agree with you about all light color horses not staying light for long. They always manage to roll in something. The worst is when you live in an area with red dirt, you get a strawberry colored horse in the end. ( ( ( LOL ( ( (
**From: Keziah**
This is a good idea. Except once the foals turn 1, they're yearlings. And 3- 5 is the age when a colt or filly is officially a horse. Not sure on the precise date. I make sure that I never describe a horse wrong in my stories, because I have a bay mare and have been riding for years. This is a really good idea, and please update soon! Rnrn Keziah
**Lady Arabian Knight**
You and Pickzee hit on the same thing so I'll get technical on the first chapter and put all the proper horse terms on it.
**From: Rosethorn** ::waves:: HII! Major horse fan here. Very accurate reference, except for one thing: a gallop is a four-beat gait. :) Just so you know. Thanks and keep writing!
**Lady Arabian Knight** Actually not, the Gallop is a three beat gate, resembling the canter but faster, 12 miles per hour. The extended gallop or hand gallop may be a four be a four-beat gait, 16 miles per hour.
Again I am very grateful for your reviews and e-mails!! I really didn't want to get technical on horse terms. But it looks like I need to!!LOL!! I guess I'll keep posting stuff as I see it misused or think it would be misused. So email or review anything that you think I have messed up on or think I should put on here!!
For those that ride-Happy Trails--!!!!
I'll write more stuff later!!!
To HShuler888, crazycatlady, thumpet and everyone else who reviewed. To tell you all the truth I didn't expect anyone to read it, let alone review on it. But I'm not complaining. Thank you all.
Here are some of your reviews that I felt like replying on.
**From: Pickzee** While white horses exist there are, I think, three registered white horses that currently alive. What you have written for white also applies to creams and in some case's albinos. Trust me there are two creams at my old barn and they are never ever called white. A better way to say a white would either be cream or "a horse whose coat was so light it looked white." Besides, whites, creams, albinos, and light grays don't stay 'near white' for long. You should also put in something about tack and riding horses, some of the most heinous breaches of horse writing etiquette were about riding and the use of tack. Another good piece like this is in Karthurian9's column, I can't remember what it's called but it is very factual. One more thing a filly or colt isn't just a foal, a foal is only up to a year old, a colt or filly is up through their three's. rn *Scurries away, afraid of being hit with a frying pan*
**Lady Arabian Knight** When you refer to a horse as white, the horse has a pink skin and white fur, compared to a gray or cream colored horse that has a dark skin and light fur. You know how on a paint, like a black and white. The black fur has dark skin underneath it and the white fur has pink skin underneath it. Therefore it's a black and "white" not a black and gray/cream. It's the same for a gray and white paint. The fur is all light colored, but where the fur is mixed with darker hairs, the skin underneath is black, and where the fur is all white the skin underneath is pink. But there always a horse hear and there that becomes an acceptation.
I agree with you about all light color horses not staying light for long. They always manage to roll in something. The worst is when you live in an area with red dirt, you get a strawberry colored horse in the end. ( ( ( LOL ( ( (
**From: Keziah**
This is a good idea. Except once the foals turn 1, they're yearlings. And 3- 5 is the age when a colt or filly is officially a horse. Not sure on the precise date. I make sure that I never describe a horse wrong in my stories, because I have a bay mare and have been riding for years. This is a really good idea, and please update soon! Rnrn Keziah
**Lady Arabian Knight**
You and Pickzee hit on the same thing so I'll get technical on the first chapter and put all the proper horse terms on it.
**From: Rosethorn** ::waves:: HII! Major horse fan here. Very accurate reference, except for one thing: a gallop is a four-beat gait. :) Just so you know. Thanks and keep writing!
**Lady Arabian Knight** Actually not, the Gallop is a three beat gate, resembling the canter but faster, 12 miles per hour. The extended gallop or hand gallop may be a four be a four-beat gait, 16 miles per hour.
Again I am very grateful for your reviews and e-mails!! I really didn't want to get technical on horse terms. But it looks like I need to!!LOL!! I guess I'll keep posting stuff as I see it misused or think it would be misused. So email or review anything that you think I have messed up on or think I should put on here!!
For those that ride-Happy Trails--!!!!
I'll write more stuff later!!!