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This is where tight woods trails and some dressage training on your 
horse are very handy. You  just go much faster through these trails and 
listen to the cries of agony as the drafter - who probably didn't have 
much dressage training so his horse doesn't know a leg que from a carrot 
- crashes his knees as his horse rushes around the corners to keep up.

However, doubt if it would do much for you in the open desert environment.

Truman

Bruce Weary DC wrote:

>   I don't mean to imply that we should try to control the trail. A 
> true drafter will ride the exact same speed I do, even when I 
> arbitrarily vary it from a canter to a walk, and there is plenty of 
> room to pass on an open trail. Even when I stop and dismount, they may 
> stop to wait for me to begin riding again. Sometimes they will walk on 
> past, but verrrry slowly, so I am sure to catch up and pass again, so 
> that they may resume following. This is all done within 50 feet of me, 
> and sometimes closer. I'll admit that sometimes the mischievous side 
> of me takes over (go figure). On occasion, I have managed to get far 
> enough ahead to be able to duck out of sight briefly in the trees. 
> When the pursuing rider tries to catch up, I let him ride on past me 
> unseen and chase a ghost to the next vet check, or, more likely, the 
> next horse he can draft on. There's a certain amount of satisfaction 
> in this for my twisted little mind. I call it "Take a cab and fool the 
> neighbors." Feel free to use this method yourselves. I wasn't wise 
> enough to patent it. In fact, it was taught to me by one of my 
> endurance riding mentors. I'm simply passing it on for the benefit of 
> future generations. Maybe they'll name a library after me or something 
> someday. Dr Q, world renowned "drafter dodger."


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"Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what 
we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true."  - 
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