You've been watching too many late night horror movies filmed in Iceland. Besides all that, the ice is melting so fast, according to you global warming types, that it's gone before it's passenger has a chance to die. They consume so much whale blubber that they naturally float, which allows them to paddle to shore.
Nothing like riding one you raised, started, and finished yourself, though.
Same with the Walkers. Never had one offer to buck.
The fox trotter I ride has supposedly done a few crow hops before but he hasn't even done that with me. Great horse.
I only had occasion to ride one MFT; he was every bit as comfortable as my TW mare, just gaited a little different.
No, it is originated from them
I rode a Walker several years ago that we were looking after for a friend while he got his fences built. She was an unholy terror that would bite you if you turned to walk away, but she didn't buck. I'd offered to ride her to keep her in shape and I only ever made the mistake of riding her once. He'd been told she was green broke, which was fine. I've ridden several green broke horses over the years with few problems. But this girl, holy crap! Calling her green was the seller's nice way of saying she'd had some training under saddle and still didn't have the basics down. The first thing I do with a green horse is put them through the basics, but when I tried to get her to back she reared and tried to throw me off. I'll say this, I'm glad I saddled her myself or my butt would have been on the ground.
Yes, now with the global warming they will drown and not freeze to death.
As a breed, they're generally pretty easy to get along with, as long as they understand what you want, but there's usually a bad apple in a full barrel.
