Ridecamp: Re: [RC] [RC] Help, New Horse... Need Some Hints!

Quoted from kit kat's message:
>  you tell me how to work towards it, but then you say not to do that to 
> my horse?

Don't force your horse.  Work slowly towards solving your problem.

> To have a endurance horse, I NEED to be able to leave the yard and 
> ride.  <snip>  I just don't want to be run over and reared at when she 
> want to get away.

To have an endurance horse of course you need to be able to leave the yard 
and ride - I'm just saying take your time.  I'm also saying that if she's 
running you over and rearing to get away from something, you need to get 
her over her fear, but you can't force that by making her stand right next 
to cows before she's ready, for example, or stand at the end of the 
driveway with big trucks driving by.  She needs to be brought to those 
points gradually so that when you are at the point of riding along the 
roadside you won't be dumped by a horse that's afraid.

However, before working on either the cow or the truck situation, I think 
you need to work on her ground manners.  Some horses off the track have 
never learned that!  Your mare needs those basic lessons to be learned 
fully before she's tested on cows or trucks.  Then she needs all the rest 
of her basic lessons - under saddle, etc.  The endurance trail is not the 
place to be teaching the basic stuff - it's the goal for after your horse 
already knows that much!

Lif Strand
Quemado NM  USA
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