ridecamp@endurance.net: [endurance] All heart, no brain horse

[endurance] All heart, no brain horse

Leif Neland (leifn@roskildebc.dk)
17 Apr 96 06:56:13 +0200

o> From: Kevin Pfoertsch <safehavn@fast.net>
o> Date: Tue, 16 Apr 96 17:06 EDT
o> Subject: [endurance] No Frills, the rider's perspective...

I'll do some heavy quote-f*cking here, if you'll pardon my expression.
...
o> Unfortunately,
o> he begins getting impatient, despite the pace and starts pulling
o> harder. I am constantly fighting him as we drop into Edinburg
o> Gap
...
o> Travis bulls ahead huffing and puffing but not slow
o> the 1200ft climb, reaching the summit a few minutes ahead of Heat
o> Tancredi and a few others we had passed.
...
o> Travis, of course, smells a race and picks up
o> Flashbacks of Rhode Island come to mind as I try desperately to
o> mind on the trail and not on the horse ahead of us.
...
o> I have a great horse with all
o> the talent and heart in the world and no brain. Not a good
o> combination!... Well, we learned a few things the hard way this
o> ride, and we'll work on improving for next go around.

My Tauka also have less brain that willpower. Instead of keeping a steady pace,
if I'm not very concentrated and insisting, the pace will be canter (mostly
controlled, but anyway) for a while, then when he runs out of breath, walk.
Then canter again, and so on. And I often feel we use just as much energy
(together) fighting to keep the pace down as we would do if he just got his
way.

Sometimes I almost blow the race, because I don't have energy left to fight
him, and just think "Oh what the hell" (or rather doesn't think at all) and let
him run.

How do I teach him the difference between endurance and hunting?

Leif Neland
Internet: leifn@roskildebc.dk

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