-----Original Message----- From: Mike Sherrell
[mailto:mike@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2007
8:30 AM To: 'april' Subject: RE: [RC] Teaching
rearing
-----Original Message----- From: april
[mailto:moonlitride@xxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2007
8:52 PM To: mike@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: [RC]
Teaching rearing
Actually , a horse who already has a rearing
issue is one of the few good reasons to teach rearing on cue. One of the
fastest, surest, ways to get control of a bad habit is to teach it with a cue.
If it is a "taught trick" that gets a reward for doing it right and
you are not asking for it, it loses its appeal as an avoidance
measure.
Thanks. I'm getting scared, though. I may just go
with trying to teach Traveller to bow.
He
has reared a couple of times, notably when I was trying to get him to cross
a 8 foot square tub of water in the trail course -- he was right, it was
stupid to go into it when there were obviously two easy ways to go around
it. So I figure he and I know how to rear without a crash. But he is
self-willed enough to start rearing in situations where now he would balk,
at least until I talked him into going ahead.
I
haven't decided for sure yet, so please do send Mary Downey's email
address.
-----Original Message----- From:
ridecamp-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:ridecamp-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of
Susan Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2007 9:41
AM To: Ridecamp Subject: Re: [RC] Teaching
rearing
The horse already knows how to rear. Any horse will rear as a
defense. All those airs above the ground you see the famous Lipizzaner
stallions do are movements those horses did in wars and they come by them
naturally.
I've seen some magnificent movements with rears...all sidesaddle!
Dorthy Herbert auditioned for "Magnificent Dr. Satan" using one of the 5
"Silver" (Lone Ranger) and performing that rear. The first time
the horse did a weak rear so she asked him to do it again...this time
pulling him over on her! (She was astride.) She asked one more
time and got it perfect. She was famous for doing the lay back (aside)
on a rearing horse as well as lifting her right leg will up in the air
during the rear! WOW!!
At any rate, rearing is dangerous unless horse and rider are well
trained and on the same page. I figure that's Mike's business.
I'll send you Mary Downy's e-mail address, Mike. She rode with Dorthy
in circuses and was the first woman to ride the Lipizzaner stallions.
She did everything, even the airs above the ground, aside
too...brilliant work! She is currently training the horses used at
Disney World to do all kinds of tricks.
Be careful and have fun!
Beth Walker
<bwalker2@xxxxxxx> wrote:
I
think my first question is :: why?
Once a horse learns how to rear,
it can easily become an evasion and a vice - a dangerous
one.
Semper Obliquo (Always
aside), Susan Young, The
Princess of Pink
Your Independent Mary Kay Beauty
Consultant Glenndale Grace Farm, Ft Gibson, Oklahoma
U.S.A. "Ride on! Rough-shod if need be, smooth-shod if that will do, but
ride on! Ride on over all obstacles, and win the race!" - Charles Dickens
(1812-1870)
