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Re: To Look or Not?
This post points to know your horse and why the
terror. I usually just focus and get the horses to focus past the
offending object, but a few years ago there was an incident that I, rightly as
it turned out, handled differently.
My step daughter who, was a very green rider, came home in
tears, Her 21 year dead broke QH mare had spooked and dumped her on the
road to a friend's house. I caught the mare and rode out to the area to
see what the problem was. The farmer had been bailing and the field was
full of very large round bales, that terrified Pax. I spent an hour
getting her up to one of them. When she got right next to it, trembling in
fear, she suddenly realized it was hay, took a big bite, and relaxed. This
was a permanent fix on big round bales. In this case she just needed to
know they were food, and thus OK.
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