Re: would you like to write a little blurb on sidereins and the green horse?

On Aug 31, 2:53?am, cindi <allisonac...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
First thanks EVERYBODY for your input! I'm sure you all know my
feelings on the matter - I believe he should be going forward
consistently with impulsion, happily and alert and eager, and that he
should be trained to negotiate obstacles and *think* and be soft and
give to pressure and be desensitized to all manner of stuff before
he's ever backed and certainly before anybody tries to position his
head or neck... I would probably never use side reins but even if I
decided they were OK for this horse, that wouldn't be for a few months
at least. He is great at bending and is already learning to maintain
a slight inside bend on a loose rein while lunging. He's very smart.

So I'll print some of these replies... I really feel she just needs
more viewpoints...

On Aug 30, 11:40 pm, Dana Compton <spellbounda...@xxxxxxx> wrote:

Be careful, if they make him sore enough with incorrect/over work he
may get grumpy during lessons and misbehave.

Absolutely! This is another reason why it bothers me, because they
are potentially depriving me of a great lesson horse! As well as
wrecking him - I mean, he's 17, leave the poor guy alone... He has
indicated a bit of alarm to me at the start of recent lessons, sort of
an "oh no, is this going to be bad?" feeling. A tiny bit of beginning
to tense up and be worried. So he's off the books for the smaller and
less experienced folks...

I watched him tonight with his owner and I guess I am wrong about the
ewe neck... When not in the sidereins he does have a bit of a bulge
under his neck, but with the sidereins on the underneath of his neck
looks really nice - soft, floppy, not bulging. But his topline doesn't
look good; he's breaking at the 3rd and 4th vertebrae, not at the
poll, and he's compressing his neck instead of letting it telescope
out - they apparently NEVER work forward-down-out. And his back is
hollow. He's already got arthritis in the back... And he doesn't track
up - he just sets his head. Funny, he was fine all the weeks up to
the "big show" but then the day of the show he was lame, so his owner
rode somebody else's horse. He was fine the next day... Smart
guy? ;-)

take care,
cindi

cindi-

sounds like you have a good head on your shoulders <grin>.

i've used side reins successfully, but never used them short and
tight...always long. i went for the long and happy version <grin>.

i still think i should come west and go trail ride with you! (or go to
the trail ride obstacle place!!)

betsey

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