RE: RE: Re: Training a New Endurance Horse

["Maryanne Stroud Gabbani" <maryanne@ratbusters.net>]

We have a plateau above the desert edge where the Egyptian army was camped
about 25 years ago and amused itself by practicing with bulldozers. It's
rocky on a sandy base, so stones sink under a horse's hoof, but UNBELIEVABLY
uneven. And once the foxes and feral dogs have made dens in the sides of the
craters, it gets even more interesting. Best place I've ever seen for
teaching a horse to walk carefully. Any time I have an antsy horse I take
them up there and let them think for a while.

Maryanne Stroud Gabbani
Cairo, Egypt
maryanne@ratbusters.net
www.ratbusters.net

-----Original Message-----
From: Bob Morris [mailto:bobmorris@rmci.net]
Sent: Sunday, June 03, 2001 7:46 PM
To: sharp penny; Robyn Levash
Cc: ridecamp@endurance.net
Subject: RC: RE: Re: Training a New Endurance Horse


Some of the best cavaletti work we get is when we go riding in the areas
where precommercial thinning has been performed. They cut the smaller trees
(2 to 6 inches in diameter) and let them lay. Never a preconceived distance
apart and never a standard height. Makes the horse look where to go and how
to step. Always changing direction and no one foot step is the same.

Results in a very balanced horse that always knows where its feet are.

Bob Morris

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