ridecamp@endurance.net: Re: Bighorn tragedy

Re: Bighorn tragedy

Joe Long (jlong@HiWAAY.net)
Sun, 09 Jul 95 20:19:00 CDT

>
>... According to what I heard some horses bolted out
>of an electric fence and ran off into some barbed wire. One horse
>(belonging to the Kanavy's?) broke its leg in a cattleguard and had to
>be destroyed....
>I understand this has raised the question again as to whether electric
>fences should be banned at endurance ride camps.
>
>
>Karen Steenhof
>Boise, Idaho
>

IMHO, electric fences aren't the problem. Improper use of electric fence=
s (e.g.,
failure to properly train horses at home before using them on rides) is =
the
problem.

I once had a horse that would break out of pipe corrals, but never broke =
out of
an electric fence.

A more proper question in this case might be, why wasn't a cattleguard =
at an
endurance camp blocked to prevent horses unfamiliar with the grounds from=

running into it?

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Joe Long
jlong@HiWAAY.net