Re: Going bitless...dressage bashing

["Terry Barrall and Felix Rodriguez" <losvagos@navicom.com>]

>p.s. There is nothing "natural" about endurance riding either.
>Horses, by nature, walk around and graze, sleep (occasionally),
>have sex, and run away from anything that remotely frightens
>them.  Anything else that we ask of them is "unnatural."
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I totally agree.... like jumping. I loved it because this huge animal would
do something so totally unnatural and absurd as to go over a high and narrow
obstacle that it could easily go around, because I *asked* it to. Because we
had the training, trust and relationship to do it... what a rush.

Terry B.