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Re: RC: Re: head tossing



Shelly,

My horse will sling his head to the side back and forth occasionally when we're
riding and also sometimes in the barn. It seems as if he's looking around at
something. Teeth aren't the problem..I use a sidepull. It could be a vision
thing.

Susan

TddWil@aol.com wrote:

> The horse I've been riding for the past 2 months seems to 'talk' by bobbing
> his head up and down. He does this with a bit or hackamore, in the round pen
> with no tack or even halter and in the stall. He doesn't do it constantly,
> just when he's trying to tell me something (let's go faster, I'm out of
> breath, or feed me etc.) He never gets his head so high as to get near my
> face, so I haven't worried about it. A different horse I took to rides would
> put his head up in the air and sling it up and down so hard I would be pulled
> up on his neck, and he would bolt to get to the front of the pack. Teeth
> checked out OK, and by himself he was OK. A snaffle had no control, even with
> a running martingale, and a curb, which I used with a standing martingale,
> made him angry if I/he pulled hard. Then I tried a mechanical hackamore with
> no martingale or other 'helps'. It controlled him with a light touch on the
> reins and allowed me to work on his bolting problem. The first horse I
> mentioned hates a hackamore, so I guess its all trial and error until you
> find what works.
>
>                                                        Shelly in DE



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