Re: RC: RC: Breaking two year olds to ride -Reply

[SandyDSA@aol.com]

In a message dated 9/21/99 6:53:40 AM Pacific Daylight Time, ColleenO@jhc.com 
writes:

<< I don't have alot of experience with young horses, but I do know this, =
 there are several quarter horses sporting naviculair and ring bone who =
 were "broke out" as two year olds.
  >>
If we don't think of 'breaking' as an event but as a process, then we won't 
relegate it to a 'method' necessarily but a relationship. Sound a littel 
Spockish? Maybe. But our young horses are 'started' at about 3 hours old. By 
the time we actually saddle, mount and stop and go they are between 3 and 4 
and have already had all of the education to make the final stage of actually 
riding them in tack no big deal. The time frame is a little different than 
all those John wayne movies where they didn't have the time and a horse was 
transportation not a pet. So far no problems with this lifestyle
san


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