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Re: [RC] re: hobbling to saddle - Stephanie E CaldwellI find most of it pointless, dangerous and annoying to the horse. << My horse is a very intelligent horse with an attitude like most Arabs. She learned early on with the first Parelli/Lyons type trainer to lay down when she was through. When that quit working she started jumping the 5' Round pen. LOL We've since quit trying NH and gone back to German training and Cowboy training, I grew up with German trainers and she grew up with Cowboy trainers, but my question is to those of y'all who believe in NH, what do horses gain out of RPing? I know people who RP every time they ride, for about 20 minutes before hand, why? I've never had one who could tell me why they were in teh RP chasing their horse around with a whip... My horse was severly abused as a youngster (one reason I'm so against abuse). She was broke around 14 - 16 months after being "found" in someones corrall in Texas. She's supposed to be a Spanish Mustang. When I purchased her she was 2 or 3 and ended up having some very severe behavior issues. The original people that broke her used barbed wire for her curb chain, she has no feeling in her mouth, from her reaction she was apparently beaten severly, she was used to do ranch work for a few months. She was terrified of people in general when I bought her, so I'd always been around Dressage and the barn I boarded at was into John Lyons. They convinced me to let them "train" my horse that they could fix her quicker... She ended up hating NH and I took about 6 months and rebroke her slowly. She's a wonderful little mare who loves people now, but all they did to her in her RP training was run her around the RP until I rescued her from them after half an hour or so because she wouldn't "join up". I do lunge sometimes before I ride. If Star's been in all week (like this week... around here it's supposed to rain until Friday) I'll lunge her on a 30' line just so I can keep her from flying around. If her pasture's not flooded I turn her out for half an hour and let her get all that pent up energy. Somedays I'll get on her and let her run... Just depends on how brave I am! Steph =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net. Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/Ridecamp Subscribe/Unsubscribe http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/logon.asp Ride Long and Ride Safe!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
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