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Whew, Ok. Thanks for explaining. i guess I read it
wrong!  I'm kind of doing that with my young mare Ali.
I take her out on walks with my riding students who
are on my gelding, Zab. Now, Zabbie is a purebred
Arab, but he feels no great compunction to hurry
anywhere, LOL. He's quite content to just mosey along.
It's great training for Ali, who thinks she has to get
there in a hurry.

Chris

--- heidi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > ACK! NO WAY JOSE! I can't imagine letting my young
> > mare, whom I've worked with and trained from day
> 1, be
> > on a dude string with all those incompentents
> yanking
> > on her mouth, whacking her sides, sitting off
> > balance... and undoing all the work I've put into
> her!
> > No way. I can't think of a worse thing to do to a
> > young horse.
> No, no, no, Chris--that is not what Bonnie
> suggested!  :-)  She said to
> use him as a guide horse for rental strings--that
> means YOU ride him as
> you guide the dude string.  I'm with you 100%--I
> wouldn't let dudes ride
> my younguns either.  But having to be ridden WITH a
> dude string is a great
> way to teach a youngun some group etiquette, never
> mind that it also
> teaches control and the need to go YOUR pace, even
> if that pace is slow.
>
> JMHO, but endurance horses have their "lower gears"
> greatly neglected for
> the most part, and that is one of the big reasons
> why they get out of
> control at starts, etc.
>
> I'm not in a position to guide dude strings (and
> likely neither are many
> other members of RC) but I agree with Bonnie that it
> is a GREAT training
> opportunity!  We do the same thing, pretty much, by
> going on BCH trail
> rides (out all day, entirely at a walk).  My dad
> used to do this with our
> young horses by pulling a pack string with them
> during hunting season. 
> Lots of situations you can find to do this sort of
> thing, if you look
> around.
>
> Heidi
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