Re: Re: Re: crops and stuff...

["Ruth Bourgeois" <ruthb@tdsi.net>]

> << >In a perfect world all of our training could be done "down home on the
>  farm".>
>
>  I disagree.  I can think of nothing more boring for a horse than staying
in
>  for ages, being trained, until he was deemed "acceptable" to be taken out
in
>  public. >>
>
> And a certain amount of training involves learning to leave the familiar
> environment and accept the strange things that life throws one's way--and
> that can ONLY be done by leaving home in most cases...

How very true - not JUST for the horse - but also for the rider! : )

Ruth