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Horse Talk!
anyone ever been on a run away horse?
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<blockquote data-quote="TR" data-source="post: 153171" data-attributes="member: 22"><p>'</p><p></p><p>....and the harder that ground seems to get too!! So funny! I was just talking to a friend who is a couple of years older than me about this very thing the other day! About how we never even thought of coming off a horse or getting hurt when we were kids, but at our ages now, we really like the older horses who are more settled and don't take any rodeoing when you get on....aaahhhh, Youth!</p><p></p><p>Tape is right.....making running off an unpleasant experience for them is a great way to teach them that its not acceptable to take off.....for the next time, and it would be a good idea to know the ground you're running them on. If you've just got to stop them, then turning their head is the best way, only I tend to do it very slowly for Alan's reason......I'm not too crazy about hitting the ground, but hitting it with them on top of me is definitely not on my list of "want to do's". Sorry MSSCAMP, running a horse at a fence isn't a choice I would make simply because their either gonna go over it, stop at it and unload me into the fence, make a sharp turn either right or left (direction unknown until you're up on the fence) and unload me into it, or hit it. Seen too many hit the fence and either flip over it or die. Yup, die. Had a friend who was working a cutting horse colt in an arena (of all places) and the dern thing bolted and ran right into the gate and dropped over dead on top of her. Of course the flipping over the fence ones looked pretty scary too. Back to my point of not really wanting to hit the ground, and certainly not wanting them to land on top of me.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TR, post: 153171, member: 22"] ' ....and the harder that ground seems to get too!! So funny! I was just talking to a friend who is a couple of years older than me about this very thing the other day! About how we never even thought of coming off a horse or getting hurt when we were kids, but at our ages now, we really like the older horses who are more settled and don't take any rodeoing when you get on....aaahhhh, Youth! Tape is right.....making running off an unpleasant experience for them is a great way to teach them that its not acceptable to take off.....for the next time, and it would be a good idea to know the ground you're running them on. If you've just got to stop them, then turning their head is the best way, only I tend to do it very slowly for Alan's reason......I'm not too crazy about hitting the ground, but hitting it with them on top of me is definitely not on my list of "want to do's". Sorry MSSCAMP, running a horse at a fence isn't a choice I would make simply because their either gonna go over it, stop at it and unload me into the fence, make a sharp turn either right or left (direction unknown until you're up on the fence) and unload me into it, or hit it. Seen too many hit the fence and either flip over it or die. Yup, die. Had a friend who was working a cutting horse colt in an arena (of all places) and the dern thing bolted and ran right into the gate and dropped over dead on top of her. Of course the flipping over the fence ones looked pretty scary too. Back to my point of not really wanting to hit the ground, and certainly not wanting them to land on top of me. [/QUOTE]
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