Re: [RC] Hobbles - LindakHobbling has some very good benefits, many of which you mentioned. My 5 y.o. gelding had been taught to stand hobbled and was pretty good. One evening while out horse camping with other friends, I hobbled my gelding, then put him in a small portable corral by himself. Something must have spooked him OR he was frustrated, because he reared high in the air and when he came down, each leg was on a different side of the top bar of the corral. He was off balance just enough that he couldn't rear again, but he was struggling to free himself. I just knew he would break one of his legs and I ran to get a knife to cut the hobbles. Some how, as I remember it, the corral came apart, and the side on which my gelding was hanging, fell to the ground and my gelding escaped ok. Just a scrape or two. But I would never leave a hobbled horse in another portable OR non-portable pipe corral. Just one experience that really scared & alerted me to possible dangers of hobbling. And yes horses can do a medium fast rabbit-hop type of canter while hobbled. IT is hilarious to watch. Lindak Lake Elsinore CA =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 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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