Re: RC: re: kicking -passing incorrectly

["Carolyn Burgess" <carolyn_burgess@hotmail.com>]

I didn't want to get in on this discussion, because I know I'm going to get 
blasted.  But doesn't courtesy fit in here anywhere.  I will say right away 
that I have a kicker who always wears a red ribbon, and what will set her 
off I never know.  But I do know one thing, only a gelding/stallion will set 
off the "I want to kill you response".  She always gives a warning, 
sometimes when the other horse is a football field away.  I am less 
concerned with someone galloping by me than I am having someone gallop by me 
with no warning.  I put a very large red ribbon on my mare, that can be seen 
far away.  What happened to yelling as you approach "passing on the 
left/right", so that I can get out of the way.  I know what my horse is 
capable of, just give me a little warning so I can get her out of the way.  
And yes, I have worked on getting her to stop kicking.  She doesn't back 100 
yards now to get at someone she wants to kick, now she'll just pin her ears 
and with a crop on the rump, I (usually) don't get a kick.

Carolyn Burgess


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>Teresa Van Hove vanhove@ucar.edu
>Paraphrasing Vickie (since copy/paste is hard as a guest) this
>horse kicked when passed at fairly high speed on a single track
>trail while wearing a red ribbon.
>
>Am I the only one wondering what in "L" folks are doing apparently
>zipping by a red-ribboned horse on a single track stretch? All the
>anti-kicking advice is very good and I agree that horses cant be allowed
>to kick when mounted, regardless, but sounds like these folks need to be
>reminded of trail safety/courtesty at the ride meeting.  The folks that 
>passed
>this horse should have requested that he be taken off trail to let them
>by AND they should have waited for this to happen.  Doing otherwise is
>inviting trouble and as we all know enough stuff happens with horses
>anyway w/o inviting it to happen.
>
>Teresa
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