Re: RC: Diversification/Dreams

[Dbeverly4@aol.com]

In a message dated 2/16/00 6:54:48 PM Pacific Standard Time, 
knaptyme@uswest.net writes:

<< Some of you may think this is nuts...but I think it will be
 good.  February 27th, I'm taking my horse to his first team
 penning clinic.  After that, we are joining a team penning
 league for 4 weeks.  What do I expect to accomplish out of
 all this?  Well, I'm hoping that I will have a more rounded
 horse, who realizes that there is more to life than the
 trails.  >>

Hi Diane, I team penned on my Paint horse (BE - Beore endurance) and (in my 
experience) team penning won't help the horse "frame up".  They have to know 
how to do that before they start working cows if they're a head tosser or 
don't carry themselves well, that will actually get worse while you're trying 
to work cows.  Not that its a bad thing to do (I've tried it on my endurance 
horse, Harca) and he got even more excited than he does at the start of the 
Tevis -- it was pretty comical.  He didn't know which way to go (we did a lot 
of hopping in place).  And the local cowboys thought we were a hoot.  I think 
doing different things with any horse is a good thing, have fun!

Sylvia