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RE: [RC] more general training questions - heidi

 Ed wrote:     
 >>  many people will tell you, oh just let them buck it out when you first 
put the saddle on.  i think if you do that, you are letting them know that is 
ok.     


Tracey replied:

Ed, please can you explain how you stop the horse from bucking?  I also dont 
like to encourage bucking but I dont back youngsters, and so have different 
experience to yours.  I was just wondering how you stopped the bucking.      


In my experience, the only reason they buck is if you haven't handled
them sufficiently for them to be ready to be saddled.  We had one such
episode with a mare that was actually being saddled for about the third
time--girthed her up too quickly, had her set back, break loose, and go
over a bank, whereupon she had a major bucking episode and took out a
fence.  Set her back something awful.  And all our fault.  But that's
the only bucking episode I've seen in years with a young horse.

Heidi


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