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Well, of course! Horses know their way and learn the
trails we ride. they learn to read trail ribbons too,
i'm convinced of that.

Think about it this way. If you go to grocery store
you've never been in before, it takes you twice as
long to find everything compared to shopping at the
store you go to every week...

Yes, horses learn every rock, every log every twist
and turn. I had the hardest time riding one of my
geldings on the local trails for an endurance ride
because he knows those trails so well, he knows where
all the short cuts back to camp are... he'd argue with
me at the short cuts, LOL...

My other distance horse knows every trail we've done.
We once went to a trail for a pleasure ride at a park
where we used to compete. We hadn't ridden this trail
for 2 years, but he remembered where camp had been and
kept insisting that we should take the path that went
to the camp area. I guess he expected someone to be
there with a stethoscope, LOL...

chris-

-- Karen Casemier <kcrazzmatazz@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Boy, I'm full of questions lately.
>
> I'm wondering if I should be concerned about my
> mare's behavior/recovery 
> rates on the trails we use for regular conditioning,
> or if this is just 
> something that comes with the territory when you
> ride an intelligent horse 
> on the same trails a minimum of once a week.
=====
"A good horse makes short miles," George Eliot

Chris and Star

BayRab Acres
http://pages.prodigy.net/paus

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