Re: RC: Stallion Behavior

["Nancy Mitts" <mitts_n@hotmail.com>]

Our stallion is pretty good, but no horse is foolproof. My mare is actually 
more likely to take offence.
The people who allow their horses to slam into others, sniff, & make 
threatening faces at others are as much as fault (or more) as the horses who 
react.
Stallions should behave, but they shouldn't have to put up with battering in 
the first place, no horse should.

Nancy Mitts


>From: Jim Holland <lanconn@tds.net>
>To: Ridecamp <Ridecamp@endurance.net>
>Subject: RC:  Stallion Behavior
>Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2001 21:55:29 -0400
>
> >While I'm at it if you think trail manors are an issue you should try
> >watering a stallion at a trough and have people slam into you with their
> >horse and act like it is your fault that your stallion will not stand 
>nose
> >to nose with another horse.
>
>IMHO, If your stallion will not stand nose to nose with another horse,
>it IS your fault. There should be no difference in behavior between a
>stallion, a gelding, and a mare at an Endurance Ride. It's simply a
>matter of training.  I rode 50 miles with Jerry Fruth and Jabask Knight
>(Irene).  You would never have known he was a stallion...at the water
>trough or anywhere else. When Jerry spoke, Irene dropped his ears and
>"Listened"....right now!  There are many stallions who compete in
>endurance who are gentlemen at all times.  The fact that your horse is a
>stallion is not an excuse for bad behavior...at the water trough or
>anywhere else.
>
>Jim and Sun of Dimanche
>
>
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