Re: RC: Re: Re: RE: Fw: Ten Commandments for Trail Riders

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In a message dated 1/6/00 10:28:08 AM Pacific Standard Time, RhndLev@cs.com 
writes:

<< My husband prefers bikes to horses, so I ask him to ride his bike in the 
 pasture periodically.  It's really improved my horses ability to cope with 
 meeting a bicyclist on the trail.
  >>

I was having my kids do that with their BMX bikes for a while.  There is a 
seasonal creek in our pasture and they were thrilled to be able to jump and 
race around the field.  We had to call a halt to it though when my yearling 
decided he WAS a BMX bike too.  He would run beside them, up and over all the 
jumps and whoop-dee-doos they built,  and if horses can grin, he was...big 
time.  I decided the possibility of an over exuberant buck & kicks was a 
little too dangerous and called a halt to the Extreme Games that were 
happening in my own pasture (dogs in hot pursuit as well -- eeeek!).  The 
whole thing was a huge circus.  Bottom line though, he sure isn't afraid of 
bikes -- he thinks he IS a bike.  The other funny thing is that my non-horsey 
12 year old son, Graham, thinks Chance is totally cool and plans on riding 
him someday (we'll see about that :)

Sylvia & Chance (aka the BMX bike)


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