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[RC] Spooky Horses - Nancy SturmChris makes a really good point! We have a grade gelding with a 28 RHR - he's almost not breathing he's so quiet. One of our daughters, who has not ridden since childhood, wants to begin endurance riding and I asked her to start with Dusty, do all the hard trails, learn about tack and conditioning etc. on him because he's so safe. She went out with another rider and something truly scarey must have happened because both quiet horses did 180's and Abby went off. She rode Dusty two more times and complained eash time that he was spooky, so I took him out and, by golly, he was. I think he was just convinced that suddenly the world had become less safe for short bay geldings. I'm sure that with a few more rides where nothing jumps out of the bushes to eat him, Dusty will again be bombproof. And just to balance - that I ride a nice Arab gelding who is convinced squirrels are killers and my calm approach has not convinced him that they are not. One day I sort of said "sheesh" and he about jumped out of his skin. Nancy Sturm =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 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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