Ridecamp: RE: [RC] FW: They all Kick

Horses in Egypt are cared for by grooms. We have lots of cheap, willing
labour and almost no turnout....so the usual pattern for aggressive
horses here is aggression in the box and towards MEN. How odd. I'm very
careful who is the groom for my horses for just this reason. I have been
given a 6 yr old App/Dutch WB gelding who was described as "dangerous"
by my vet, but who was in fact just totally abused in his box. He's
learning that handling doesn't hurt and that the world is bigger than
10x10.  Dangerous? Not if you understand that he's about 2 in experience
and most of that has been bad. Under saddle, he's steady and wonderfully
sweet, but a follower as he is not so brave. He's coming along and in
another couple of years I will have a  lovely big trail horse to go
along with my Arab midgets. Would I take him to an endurance ride right
now? No way. It would terrify him right now, and he'll never be a
competitive endurance horse. He's totally unsuited to endurance in this
part of the world, too heavy for all that dashing about in the sand, but
for easy going work he's great. I spend a lot of time with my gang on
what I call "brain work" with the result that some of the old guys ride
my horses and tell me that they are lovely to ride but they lack "Arab
fire"....HAH!  They've just never ridden really polite horses before.

Maryanne Stroud Gabbani
Cairo, Egypt
www.ratbusters.net


> Question:  She responds better to men then to other women, ie. she
does
> not try to boss men around. Is this my imagination or is there some
truth
in
> it?
 
>
Interesting thought--the biter that I used to ride hated men but did
okay
with women...in other words, when we corrected him for biting it made a
favorable impression.  When a man did it it made him try that much
harder to
bite.   In this case, it was a gelding.  A case of equine gender bias???




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