Truman-I think most horses prefer that dark
woods environment as odd as
it is-a lack of underbrush so they can see all around them. I guess
nervousness in open areas harkens back to the wolves on the plains days
of horsedom. This has been a challenge coming from the mountains in
Virginia to Kansas! Oh no-that rustling grass clump of grass may
contain vicious teeth and claws!
Clearly you are not referring to the dark woods of Florida - which are
for the most part so overgrown that a lion, tiger or bear could easily
hide - and eat the poor Jbird. He seems oblivious. I've ridden him out
West. I remember a ride in Capitol Reef National Park. We were on a
plateau where you could see for ever. He was fine not one issue. Put
him on a two track road - he's from side to side. I have no idea why.
I've blew a groin muscle on an endurance ride handing on when he
spooked at a brunt log as we canter along. He from one side of the dirt
road to the other in one stride. I stayed on but couldn't finish a ride
for 6 months from the injury.
Truman
-- “I maintain there is much more wonder in science than in
pseudoscience
“I maintain there is much more wonder in science
than in
pseudoscience. And in addition, to whatever measure this term has any
meaning,
science has the additional virtue, and it is not an inconsiderable one,
of
being true.” Carl Sagan
