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Long time ago, I did a Parelli clinic where we did an excercise called 
"controlled catastrophe" where the instructor would deliberately try to 
spook your horse, and your job was to keep your horse from doing the 180. 
I think it's a great excercise to do with a horse like yours.  Of course in 
an arena with a good instructor.

The horse I broke my ribs on would do 180 when he spooks - which is actually 
quite rare when he does.  When I broke my ribs, I was riding with a totally 
loose rein right before-which I do a lot with him and still do.  Don't have 
much chance to react with loose reins!  Luckily he's pretty much stopped 
doing 180's.  Or I'm getting smarter and recognizing the rare time when 
something he sees just overwhelms him.    I think it's been a couple of 
years since he's done anything close to doing a 180.

I like to be able to put my horse anywhere in order on my trail rides.  I 
rode my mare today, and she usually likes being smack dab in the middle of 
the pack of Arabs, but we were with an Icelandic, a paint and a quarter pony 
today.  She just decided she had to take the lead.  This mare will spook at 
anything and will look for things to spook at, so she's not one I ride with 
a lose rein.  Lot's of Arab eating rocks and trees today!  Such drama.  But 
she didnt' really do anything stupid, she's never done a 180 with me the 
whole time I owned her, and she's never sent me to the ER.  Probably because 
she keeps me on my toes.

K.








----- Original Message ----- 
From: "susan cooper" <desertduty@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "ridecamp" <ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, September 22, 2007 9:27 AM
Subject: Re: [RC] falling off the horse-long


> --- Truman Prevatt <tprevatt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > > With a horse like that - you must always be  on
> your toes at all times and be looking down the trail
> farther than the horse to see what he might spook at.
> If you see it first you can usually  "work them
> through it" without you becoming a yard dart. <<
>
> LOVE the yard dart description!!  I have a horse (not
> my endurance horse) that spooks at the "invisable"
> monsters, not the ones you can see, so you can never
> prepare.  She will do a 180 then stop and say "oh, it
> was nothing".  She is lead mare in the herd, and I
> think takes her responsibilities seriously.  I ONLY
> ride her with another horse and always behind the
> other horse, then she doesn't spook and is the perfect
> trail horse.  I've contemplated selling her, but I
> understand her and I don't want her going to someone
> who will punish her - after all, in her mind, she is
> trying to protect everybody else.
>
> Susan in NV
>  Nevermore Ranch http://users.oasisol.com/nevermore/
>
>
>
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