Re: Re: Re: emergency brakes

["Sandy Bolinger" <bolinger@bigsky.net>]

Another nifty idea that I'll just bet those Velcro saddle people could
engineer...would be an ejection seat...A second seat that has some major
springs between it and your real saddle...You'd need some special machine to
squash the springs down flat...then somehow fasten everything down ...you'd
have a big red button right there on the pommel....just like a jet pilot
ejection seat!!!  Push the red button right before your horse runs head long
into the tree...or into the side of a church !
----- Original Message -----
From: Maggie Mieske <mmieske@netonecom.net>
To: <EquesB@aol.com>; <harpy@io.com>; <ridecamp@endurance.net>
Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2000 6:28 PM
Subject: RC: Re: Re: emergency brakes


> My nephew, now in his 20s, manages a stable for a rich lady in
Frankenmuth,
> runs his own stable string of 10 horses and is planning to buy The
Carriage
> Co. there as well, once told me you could stop a runaway horse by running
> it into a tree....he knows this because he tried it....once.  Somebody
told
> him to do this and he did...read "gullible" all over his forehead!  He
> doesn't recommend it anymore....I hope not!  :)
>
>
> Maggie Mieske
> Mieske's Silver Lining
> 10601 S. Richards Rd.
> McBain, Michigan 49657
> http://www.netonecom.net/~mmieske
> mmieske@netonecom.net
>
> ----------
> > From: EquesB@aol.com
> > To: harpy@io.com; ridecamp@endurance.net
> > Subject: RC:   Re: emergency brakes
> > Date: Tuesday, June 20, 2000 8:16 PM
> >
> > In a message dated 6/20/00 3:05:45 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
harpy@io.com
>
> > writes:
> >
> > << You could
> >  pull his head all the way around 'till he was looking you dead in the
> eye,
> >  he'd continue on full speed ahead until he crashed into something. >>
> >
> > I think the key to the one rein stop is to disengage the hind end.  I
> have
> > had to do this a couple of times and pretty soon the runaway, decides to
> stop
> > as soon as you lift the rein more on one side.  I also, think this is
> best
> > practiced before getting into the runaway situation, but I would not
> hesitate
> > to use it under any circumstances. Now as a kid, before I knew about one
> rein
> > stops, I had a horse run like crazy at a dead run, I darn sure wasn't
> going
> > to bail off, we were going through an orange grove, it was good footing.
>  At
> > the end of the row of trees was very LARGE Catholic church.  I did say I
> was
> > very young and stupid, but I aimed him for the church wall.  He stopped,
> it
> > was a little rough, but it was a stop.  Do you think the church had
> anything
> > to do with it?  <VBG>
> >
> > Jackie Baker
> >
> >
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