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Re: [RC] [Guest] [RC] crossing water with a green Arab - Sullivan



On Behalf Of csimmons88

I spent Saturday in the saddle with a green horse doing the creek dance.

The best kept 'secret' I learned from Pat Parrelli years ago.

He took a bunch of us on new started 2/3/4 year olds (1 week or less under
saddle).  He sent us down a dip with small creek at the bottom and a nice
open up slope on the other side.  Just the type that if they're not going
to
quietly walk across it was a safe 'leap'....

There was only one horse that crossed out of the group.



While this makes "some" sense, you cannot convince me that just by focusing
some sort of
"posittive energy hocus pocus"  on getting the horse to do something they
are scared of doing
is going to work every time.

These types of things are a wreck waiting to happen. It can be almost
totally avoided if breeders and those
who buy youngsters would do something other than leaving them in pasture or
paddocks for 3 years.  Babies
that are ponied out in the real world do not have issues with creeks,
traffic, bikes, dogs, etc.......

With young horses, it is enough to ask them to attemp to focus on figuring
out what a rider whats.  To throw totally
strange situations into this is asking for trouble. Why would anyone take a
horse who has been only a week under saddle,
and ask them to do something that scary and difficult?  It takes weeks and
months for a young horse to figure out what
a rider is asking with cues....better to have that stuff down SOLID, and
THEN try out in the real world.  If you have ALREADY
exposed them to the real world, you are tipping the odds in your favor.

Again, not impressed with Parelli methods.
Karen


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