Re: Horses who Pull Back

["Joan Ruprecht" <ruprecht@tidepool.com>]

I've done that too, the cinch badly, make horse long term sore so that they
have to fight back some way. Hope you guys that have not done it yet could
be saved this problem.
-----Original Message-----
From: David LeBlanc <dleblanc@mindspring.com>
To: Dbeverly4@aol.com <Dbeverly4@aol.com>; ridecamp@endurance.net
<ridecamp@endurance.net>
Date: Friday, November 19, 1999 9:38 AM
Subject: RC: Horses who Pull Back


>At 12:07 PM 11/19/99 EST, Dbeverly4@aol.com wrote:
>>In my experience, horses who pull back
>>are usually in need of some consistent discipline and training all the way
>>around.  Another friend of mine has an ex-polo pony who pulls back AND
then
>>throws himself to the ground when you tighten his cinch.
>
>Our mare developed this a while back, and what we discovered was that her
>saddle had the rigging too far forward, and the cinch was rubbing her a
>little.  The whole setup made her sore, so she was reacting to pain.
>
>>Her "solution" is
>>that she never ties this horse up -- at all.
>
>Our solution was to get a saddle that properly fits the horse.  We then put
>the saddle on her in a stall with her face in a bucket of feed, and she
>dealt with it OK.  After a number of experiences where being cinched didn't
>hurt, now she's fine - though we do have someone hold her when she's being
>cinched the first time, instead of tying her.
>
>>He also exhibits a bunch of
>>other nasty habits that I wouldn't tolerate.
>
>Our's doesn't have any other really bad habits - a few nuisances, but no
>horse is perfect.  Anyway, the moral of the story is that if the horse is
>doing this under very specific conditions, maybe there is something to that
>situation that is bothing them, and correcting that will cure the problem.
>
>
>David LeBlanc
>dleblanc@mindspring.com
>
>
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