Re: RC: Re:

[BMcCrary27@aol.com]

In a message dated 04/04/2000 2:26:00 AM Pacific Daylight Time, 
hafke7@netins.net writes:

<< without thinking, whupped out my sponge on a string, and
 yo-yo style, threw it down to the water.  She still had her nose down in
 the water and when that sponge SLAPPED the water next to her face, she went
 straight up in the air.   >>

The trainer, working with my youngster (5, coming 6 now) last year, was 
riding through a wide moderately deep river, not too swift, and she dipped 
her sponge into the water.  It floated down the current on the colt's left 
side and I'm sure he thought it was out to get him.  I turned around in time 
to see him leap skyward, kick at the sponge, and deposit the trainer neatly 
into the river.  Fortunately she was unhurt and it was a reasonably warm day. 
 But all these stories serve to warn me not to try that trick without 
practicing at home (sponge dipping, that is).

Barbara