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Re: [RC] affecting the horse - Dyane Smith


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From: "Maryanne Stroud Gabbani" <msgabbani@xxxxxxx>

Meanwhile, they count on me to be utterly fearless and calm ...... and
I've learned that you can hide a lot of terror under the multiplication
tables.


I completely agree with Steph and Maryanne.  My method has been to say to
the horse, "look!  look!  What a lucky horse to see a bulldozer (bear,
helocopter, mountain lion....) and so close!"    So far, works every time,
although Sun was a little sceptical about the cherry picker with the guy
trimming the tops of trees.

Also, I think that however afraid you are (because I have been), if you can
control your own body, the horse really doesn't sense it.  But...I think
that circumstances can make them, like us, hyperalert and then it probably
would matter.

Dyane (who once rode a four year old colt through the streets of Karachi,
Pakistan - Maryanne could identify)

Dyane


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