Re: Eating, Pooping, the Frog and Picking

["Joe Long" <jlong@mti.net>]

On Fri, 08 May 1998 00:36:50 -0600, Jeff & Bambi Forbes
<forbes@vail.net> wrote:

>I have heard of people letting their horses graze along the trail during Endurance 
>rides (and training too I'd imagine).  How many do this, and do you stop to take a 
>few bites or just let them grab what they can on the fly.  Isn't this annoying or do 
>you get used to it?!

He can eat whatever he can grab without slowing down ... and
occasionally gets to stop for a few bites if there's a nice lush spot.
It doesn't bother me at all.

>Do most endurance horses poop on the run, or are there stoppers?  Do the horses who 
>were previously stoppers (Taaraka is now, and has surprised me by planting his feet 
>and yanking my shoulder backwards when I wasn't watching!), get excited by the 
>competition and change to moving poopers? 

Kahlil will stop when he's alone, if I let him.  If he's with other
horses he just keeps on going.

>Do you guys pick?

Only my nose.

I'll only check/pick a hoof if I have some reason to suspect a
problem.  Otherwise, we'd spend all day getting off and picking up
feet.

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