I
don't tail on the "honor system" unless one of my boys is in front of me. I
unbuckle the rein on the nearside, run it under the neck and through the
nearside stirrup and keep a hold of the end in my left hand. Off the rack reins,
like my favorite Wintec cushion grips, are long enough for
this.
During a ride I would walk over Sherman's gap, but last year when we went down
to practice we rode over both directions because we were each ponying a horse
and couldn't manage walking and leading two on that narrow trail. BTW our horses
get their super steep hill training foxhunting in the Wheeler Gully. It's not
much more than a hundred feet deep, but some of the trails are complete slides.
No one dismounts because there is no way you could keep your horse from sliding
over you. The faint of heart wait on the rim. On a good gully hunt it is not
unusual to go up and down 6 or 8 times. And, yes, horses and riders do fall.
Another common accident is for a horse to arrive at the top with the saddle and
girth slipped back into bucking strap position and proceed to buck off rider and
saddle. Libby
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[mailto:ridecamp-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of larry
Miller Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2004 8:19 AM To:
ridecamp Subject: [RC] tailing
The one time I tried tailing my horse took a
sharp left and headed right back to camp which was about 5 miles away give or
take! So what I like to do is grab the mane or the tail of the horse in
front of me. But one needs to know that horse too!
Jeanie
