[RC] re: re: Help with Spooks - Ridecamp Guest
A. Perez walkergirl@xxxxxxxxxx
"Amanda, You really offered some GOOD ADVICE!!! I hope some of our fellow ridecampers take it; it sure will make for more fun and safe riding. I am sitting at the computer instead of on my horse right now because I really don't want to go ride with a friend whose endurance horse (over 1000 miles of 50's)spooks almost constantly on his own home ranch!! as well as on new trails!"
Gulp, blush. Well, I have to admit that I am the first one who should take my own advice. I have so little time to ride that I am loathe to spend it schooling. I really don't mind Cy's idiocy that much (I call him 'Idiot Boy'): he tends to 'spook in place', just a sudden crouch, and is generally very 'up' and spirited, but NEVER uncontrollable or mean-tempered: I have never come off him except once when he fell (not his fault: it was icy). But I have found that less confident riders get really upset by his shennanigans, and it's hard to find people to ride with, and I get bored riding alone. So I guess I'll have to live by my own words and get out there in the ring with plastic tarps, balloons and other instruments of equine torture. I wonder if there's a near-bye miniature golf course I could sneak him onto, with the little automated windmills and the like?
Of course he never spooks at the things I think will scare him. The only spook I can predict is when I put on his saddle or his blanket: he ALWAYS spooks then, the turkey.
Amanda (Uh-oh, here comes a loud motercycle)
Cy (Uh-oh, here comes a REALLY scary fence post!)
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