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Re: [RC] need advice about spooking/bolting - Barbara McCrary

OK, here goes....
The first time my little horse Courage saw an Elephant Seal bull, all 19 feet long and 7-8 tons of him, on the sand at Ano Nuevo State Reserve on the CA coast, Courage thought "no big deal, it's a log." He wasn't a spooky horse at all. Then suddenly, the log reared up, dropped his long nose into his throat, and exhaled pulsing bursts of air into the sounding chamber of his throat. This is typical male Elephant Seal communication technique. The "log" sounded like the horn of a diesel semi and poor Courage jumped and asked, "WHAT was THAT?!!" Ever after, he spooked at large things in strange places, notably a large rock in High Rock Canyon on the Applegate-Lassen Trail 5-day ride.


Barbara

----- Original Message ----- From: "Lif Strand" <lif.strand@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "ll cole" <bluemoonfarm90@xxxxxxxxxxx>; <tondi313@xxxxxxx>; <alexis_mills@xxxxxxxxxxxx>; <ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, September 01, 2009 8:27 PM
Subject: RE: [RC] need advice about spooking/bolting



At 09:22 PM 9/1/2009, ll cole wrote:
What about all those horse eating rocks??? I know they're there, my 'Snort' (the Black Horse) tells me so!!!

Those of us who used to do horse patrol at Ano Nuevo in CA can tell you that the horse is always right when it comes to horse-eating rocks. Barbara McCrary - tell the story!
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[RC] need advice about spooking/bolting, alexis_mills
RE: [RC] need advice about spooking/bolting, SHEILA A WALSH
RE: [RC] need advice about spooking/bolting, Lif Strand
RE: [RC] need advice about spooking/bolting, ll cole
RE: [RC] need advice about spooking/bolting, Lif Strand