Re: Re: emergency brakes

["Maggie Mieske" <mmieske@netonecom.net>]

My nephew, now in his 20s, manages a stable for a rich lady in Frankenmuth,
runs his own stable string of 10 horses and is planning to buy The Carriage
Co. there as well, once told me you could stop a runaway horse by running
it into a tree....he knows this because he tried it....once.  Somebody told
him to do this and he did...read "gullible" all over his forehead!  He
doesn't recommend it anymore....I hope not!  :)  


Maggie Mieske
Mieske's Silver Lining
10601 S. Richards Rd.
McBain, Michigan 49657
http://www.netonecom.net/~mmieske
mmieske@netonecom.net

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> From: EquesB@aol.com
> To: harpy@io.com; ridecamp@endurance.net
> Subject: RC:   Re: emergency brakes
> Date: Tuesday, June 20, 2000 8:16 PM
> 
> In a message dated 6/20/00 3:05:45 PM Pacific Daylight Time, harpy@io.com

> writes:
> 
> << You could
>  pull his head all the way around 'till he was looking you dead in the
eye,
>  he'd continue on full speed ahead until he crashed into something. >>
> 
> I think the key to the one rein stop is to disengage the hind end.  I
have 
> had to do this a couple of times and pretty soon the runaway, decides to
stop 
> as soon as you lift the rein more on one side.  I also, think this is
best 
> practiced before getting into the runaway situation, but I would not
hesitate 
> to use it under any circumstances. Now as a kid, before I knew about one
rein 
> stops, I had a horse run like crazy at a dead run, I darn sure wasn't
going 
> to bail off, we were going through an orange grove, it was good footing. 
 At 
> the end of the row of trees was very LARGE Catholic church.  I did say I
was 
> very young and stupid, but I aimed him for the church wall.  He stopped,
it 
> was a little rough, but it was a stop.  Do you think the church had
anything 
> to do with it?  <VBG> 
> 
> Jackie Baker
> 
> 
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