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Re: training for endurance



Lucy,

Glad you responded & set my mind at ease.  I was visualizing an accident
waiting to happen.

Have you ever tried riding in a vosal.  I don't like putting a bit in my
horses mouth if I can get away from it.  With a Vosal, you have more control
than with the Ride Halter or Sidepull, but there is still no bit in the
horses mouth.  Some of the Endurance Tack Vendors carry them.  I think they
are great.  It works under the horses chin and over their nose.  Most times
I start a ride with my vosal attached to a headstall & have the Ride Halter
beneath.  Usually I remove the vosal & headstall by the noon stop.

Pat Fredrickson
Natural Horse Handling Rope Halters
http://www.catechnologies.com/patfred

-----Original Message-----
From: Lucy Chaplin Trumbull <elsie@calweb.com>
To: Pat Fredrickson <patfred@snowcrest.net>
Cc: Endurance list <ridecamp@endurance.net>
Date: Friday, January 16, 1998 4:56 PM
Subject: training for endurance


>Pat Fredrickson wrote:
>> PLEASE DO NOT use my rope halter by itself on the first endurance ride
your
>> horse does.  You should try it along with your usual gear so you can be
sure
>> that you can control your horse.  I always advise using two sets of reins
>> until you know for sure that your horse will respond to the rope ride
>> halter.
>
>No Pat! Don't worry - I wouldn't even *consider* the idea of just
>hopping onto the horse in a rope halter and expecting her to
>behave herself.
>
>I'm mostly curious about different training methods. At the moment,
>we don't have "usual gear" to fall back to. Her "usual gear" *is*
>a rope halter.
>
>But I have a clean slate with this horse, and don't want to
>automatically just follow standard practises because "that's
>just the way it's done".
>
>(like something I heard recently on TV: "we start our horses in
>bosals, by the time they're four we're riding them in a snaffle,
>and then they graduate to a curb..."   ...Why??)
>
>If I was thinking about dressage, then that would be a different
>thing. I don't necessarily need to teach her some of the subtleties
>that would necessitate using a bit (although maybe one day... ,g>).
>In this case, I want to train my mare to have good manners,
>but also be a good endurance horse.
>
>I suspect that sometimes there is a tendency for people just to
>let their horses go down the trail at an "active pace" - afterall,
>you want the horse to "move out" down the trail with little fuss.
>But I wonder how many of them are doing this because they don't
>have much choice in the matter? Because it's easier to "let them
>go" than be in charge of what speed the horse travels at.
>
>> A lot of riders, including me, love riding in them, but please use
>> caution.
>
>Always. I'm the wimpiest person alive when it comes to caution.
>
>That's why I've had this horse since April, but only just started
>riding her, and haven't ever ridden her outside the confines of an
>arena. She's not ready and I'm not ready.
>
>When we *are* ready, we'll be out there on the trails, hand-walking
>in full tack, to gauge how she's going to react. Then, once we can
>doing some trail riding, we'll be at rides as observers. I don't
>believe in stuffing her into something without her being mentally
>prepared for it (of course, all this would help if I actually
>had a trailer to take her out for "jaunts" in... <grin>)
>
>And always keeping in mind, as Linda writes:
>> "Unasked for speed is unacceptable" gets lost in "But the herd went
>> thata way!"--
>**************************************************************
>Lucy Chaplin Trumbull - elsie@calweb.com
>Displaced English person in Sacramento, CA
>
>http://www.calweb.com/~elsie
>http://www.calweb.com/~trouble
>**************************************************************
>



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