[RC] Thoughts/comments on cart training? - Jon . LindermanCurious for some input on pro's/con's of training my endurance horse some w/a jog cart. We own a vast harness stable (1 horse!) so our full-time trainer (aka my teenage son) and I have been doing some light jogging on a grass course with my arab/saddlebred gelding. He is ground driven extensively during the year and has no problem w/ a surcingle and lines. As a NSH he was probably broken to drive in his previous life as a show horse, since this is fairly common practice in some arab and saddlebred barns. He trots pulling a typical race horse jog cart nicely on a loose rein with a round collected frame and assuming Blue Herons, deer, or our suicidal barn cats don't jump out of the creek he is not spooky w/a cart either. Any thoughts on this being bad as a training tool? I am not looking to train him on the track, but I do have a grass course at home to get some work in on him as well as access to a rails to trails path behind my place that I ride on when it snows. Any thoughts good or bad would are welcome & thanks. Happy Trail, Jon =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 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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