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She gets anxious if she
> sees something very far away... Really seems to trouble her more 
> than> anything close up. She stops in her tracks, goes real high
headed, > eyes> get huge. 

Sounds like you're riding alone. If so, she's taking full responsibility
for not getting eaten and it's probably the first time she's been in that
situation. I prefer to ride new ones with an older bored horse but
sometimes that's not possible. I had a fairly young Arab that was like
that. Took forever to get past his first couch tossed out on side of the
road. :-P I found that letting my dog go with me fixed it. I'm not big on
riding with dogs, but the dog would go along in front and I guess the
horse figured if the dog wasn't alarmed it must not be important...or
maybe that whatever it was would eat the dog first. He wasn't even
particularly fond of the dog, but the "follow the leader" thing clicked
in and off we'd go with no real fears.

Angie

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