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Re: [RC] tailgating...your responsibility - Truman Prevatt

Jody Rogers-Buttram wrote:

That is true...but, I have seen cases (and it involved me and my horses) where when you move over and offer the trail to the tailgater, that they say, "oh, but I prefer to ride behind you, my horse doesn't need to go faster".

No kidding. I've had more than one of those confrontations. At some point if they won't pass I warn them it is rider beware. It not so much the rider that is too close but maintaining constant distance (although those can be a pain) from your horse's butt, it those that drop back and then run up using your horse as a brake for theirs.


At some point if a tailgater won't pass - it is their responsibility for the outcome. I haven't tried the "I shoe mine........" trick, maybe I should. One time I did, however, take off at a good gallop when we hit a wide part in the trail and then move my horse over with a leg yield thus opening a hole for the other horse to take off as a dead out runaway. I run along with him for about 100 meters - listening to the rider scream for her horse to slow down - then back my horse off; watching the other horse gallop into the sunset. I find that works pretty well - one more reasons for good dressage training for an endurance horse. Sometimes you need to be creative in how you get rid of tailgaters.

Maybe I am a Grinch....but I like to ride ALONE.

If preferring to ride alone makes you a Grinch, call me a Grinch.


Truman the Grinch.

Jody the Grinch

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"A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems."

- Paul Erdos (1913-1996)




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