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>I was taught to ride by someone who drilled it into us that you NEVER
>let go of the reins when you get dumped. This stuck with me until I was
>exercising
>Thoroughbreds at the racetrack in the '70's. I had the tree on the exercise
>saddle I
>was riding break while galloping a horse. I went off over his right
shoulder
>and was
>hanging in front of him between him and another horse. I got the living
>daylights
>beaten out of me by his knees and then got run over when I let go
I, too, have it ingrained in me not to let go of the reins..comes from years
of riding a stallion and haveing the fear of a loose stallion harassing
someone else's horse. It is my instinct to hang onto the reins, but I have
found that (for some unexplained reason) that when the sutuation warrants it,
I manage to let go. I pray that is always the case.
Teddy
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