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I always love it when folk's put their kid's up on the huge "bomb proof" horses no helmet or, just let their kid's run  around/in between horses and when asked about it they go  my "fluffy" has never spooked/kicked my response to that is "YET". Or when asked by parent's if our horses are safe (kick,etc)  I  tell them "I trust my horse completely..... to be a horse" It is my Job to insure my safety not the horses because they can be unpredictable.

Jamie 

Ranelle Rubin <raneller@xxxxxxx> wrote:

Kat,

You are so very right...even the "quietest" horse still has a stronger sense of self-preservation than a loyalty to our safety. Period. And, of course, it can change in a nano-second, all going south.

This sport is not safe..and anyone who assumes it is, has been fooled into thinking so. Fellow spooked at a generator along the only *&% fence in the whole damn desert last year AT 45 MILES. I went flying..desert dart in an instant! Totally unexpected. Luckily all that was injured was the fat on my hip, and my pride..got back up (with a little help) and finished 10th. That was the Washoe Ride..and evidently several folks had problems along that fence line. This year we will ride that fence line a few times the day before as it only a mile or so from camp.

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> From: katswig@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> To: ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [RC] Safe???
> Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 19:45:39 -0800
>
> LP said:
>
> > Fascinating theory... But if you look at it from the
> > rider's perspective - he signed that 'contract' and
> > with that he was also under the assumption that
> > ride management would work to provide a safe,
> > well-run and appropriate environment for this event.
>
> Actually, it states quite clearly in my "contract" that the entrant
> should in no way consider the event safe, but instead that it is
> inherently risky.
>
> Anybody who says that it is safe to ride a horse is full of shit.
>
> Riding horses is NOT safe, period.
>
> kat
> Orange County, Calif.
>
>
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