Re: Thanks !:)

[Jerry & Susan Milam <milamj@agtelco.com>]

Jerry & Susan Milam wrote:
> 
> Melanie,
> 
> I appreciate very much your detailed JL methodology. I just bought his
> Symposium tape 2 on round pen work I plan to use on Dandy as well.
> 
> This is my first time really training a horse from such a young age. I'm> finding after watching his tape I need to sack my other 2 older horses> out which will make them much safer for me and my kids.
> 
> I'm also trying some Natural Horsemanship stuff from Parelli as well.
> 
> Maybe you could help me with a problem I'm having with my 5 yo gelding. He's a very forward horse, hard to get him to stand after I mount him and always ready to go off at the trot immediately. I've ridden trails with him for the past 2 years and done a few LD rides with him. Now for the first time, we are training alone on roads next to open fields of crops and he's started spooking by planting his r front foot and turning 90 degrees while we're at a good paced trot which makes me go right over his r shoulder onto my butt!!!! ouch. He always seems to spook with his R fore..never on his L. When we ride with other horses he's never done this. Maybe this is a learning curve thing and a trust issue because for the first time he doesn't have a buddy to focus and depend on? He's got all the responsibility for bugger lookout now.

Thanks again,

Susan 
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> >


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