RE: Slower Ld's

["Kathy Mayeda" <kathy_mayeda@atce.com>]

You didn't read my post.  My horse is normally very controlled on
conditioning
rides, in the arena and out on roadsides.  I was riding along a narrow
shoulder this last weekend, alone, and had him calmly leg yielding, while
big trucks and fast cars came barreling by.  I have done "controlled
catastrophe training" with a Parelli instructor, so he and I are well
trained in control.

But at his first endurance ride he was a maniac. He was totally rude
and did his best to cut off other horses as well as fighting the bit
the whole way.  He is just competitive and if he wants to beat
another horse at the beginning, he's a tough hombre.  I'm just
beginning to train with other more competitive riders.  But before,
the normal LSD and interval training doesn't do much for the psychological
warfare that goes on in an actual endurance ride.

He's actually getting better because I've been hanging further
back at the start and it helps.

He is also just calming down with experience so you can't say that
"doing it" doesn't work.

K.

-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Holland [mailto:lanconn@tds.net]
Sent: Monday, January 22, 2001 4:22 PM
To: Kathy Mayeda; Ridecamp
Subject: Re: Slower Ld's


Kathy, I can assure you that's not true. An Endurance Ride is not a good
place to teach your horse control.  It's a lot safer for you and your
horse to teach him to relax and listen under more controlled
circumstances.   Another disadvantage here is that he's burning a lot of
energy he will need later in the ride...he doesn't know how far you are
planning to go!. Your horse will probably NOT get better "doing it".
Please take the time to teach him calm down cues.  I get queasy scraping
people off the turf.....

Jim and Sun of Dimanche

Kathy Mayeda wrote:
>
> <<Your horse
> better be able to handle that or you need to do a little more control
> training, cuz I guarantee it will happen again.  I apologize for their
> behavior..there is no excuse for bad manners...
>
> Jim and Sun of Dimanche
> >>RBle455589@aol.com wrote:
> >
>
> Wow - ya know - my horse is perfectly well-mannered UNTIL he gets to
> an endurance ride!  I've learned to start way back in the pack to prevent
> further idiocy, but then when he gets going we have to pass up a lot of
> people! Better to do that when they're more spread out.
>
> I feel control training just has to come by "doing it" in our case.
>
> K.