RC: Re: Stallions in endurance riding

[Magnumsmom@aol.com]

From: "Catherine Costner" <costner4@srvinet.com> wrote:

> I have a good old trail mare
> who will carry a beginner safely for 25 miles yet get hysterically
> frightened around a stallion tied to a trailer near the finish line.  I have
> another very calm mare whose usually languid heartrate simply won't return
> to normal at a vet check when a stallion is tethered nearby.
>
> So, I guess you have to ask yourself, if you are willing to put up with
> other horses' reactions to your stallion.

So I'm sitting here wondering why it is that stallions
must be very well behaved, trained and under control
around all other horses, but mares do not?  Please
elaborate for the rest of us.

Kathy Myers
Santa Fe, NM
ps... I have a gelding whose heart rate won't return
to normal at a vet check if a COW is nearby.  And
his name isn't Blue...