Re: Eventful morning (long)


"Fran Bragg" <fobragg@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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The girl who is house-sitting/ barn-sitting for us next week while we are
on vacation asked me if she could bring her horse over while she is here.
My first reaction was to say "No". >

What is it they say about instincts <g>?

You're a good friend Fran -- hope your mare will be okay and glad it wasn't
worse.

It's hard sometimes to expect the unexpected, and jumping the fence that way
was the unexpected, but once bitten, as they say...

My horse is not shod, thankfully. I was on a trail ride the other night
with my daughter on Bentley and a trainer at my barn on her horse, and we
were having a blast. She's a NH style trainer, not wacky like some of them
are, she's wonderful really and just into tons of ground work with her well
behaved horses, she's been around horses for 40 some odd years. Anyway she
was riding behind me and asked, "How is Pal with horses behind him? Is he
okay?" I had no real reason to believe otherwise -- he's been fine being
lead, middle or end on trail rides before. There WAS one time in the ring
another horse got really close behind and he tried to back up to kick, but
me being a novice thought it an abberation. So I said, "well, I don't know
for sure, but I THINK so...." with that dangling inflection... and she said,
"Let's see." She pulled her gelding up on his ***. Next thing you know, I
feel him under me going almost imperceptibly backward into kick position. I
jerked his head around and said NO!!!! at the same time she backed her horse
off immediately because she could see it possibly as soon or sooner than I
could feel it. Pal right away got obedient again. (He's really a good
boy.) I felt bad in this sort of irrational way, to think I have a "kicker"
for a split second, because I would hate for any horse to be hurt by mine.
But she told me that her horse was a kicker, too, and she untrained it. I
think Pal can be untrained pretty well of just about anything. TG he's very
willing and it's just that he isn't used yet to another horse being up his
***.

Horses will be horses, after all. I guess I really wouldn't have it any
other way.



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