If I opened the zipper or the water bottle carrier , Rascal stops because I gave him carrots a couple of times in my beginning trail rides for crossing mud puddles and to bribe him into going out alone. Now he hears a zipper and stops and leans his head back .. . (I really think his IQ is higher than mine, No wonder he thinks he should be in charge. . . )Laurie ----- Original Message ----- From: Rides 2 Far Sent: Wednesday, May 22, 2002 7:52 PM To: Onefarmgirl@xxxxxxx Cc: rides2far@xxxxxxxx; ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; sdarosa@xxxxxxx Subject: [RC] electrolyte recipe But then again I'm not anywhere near competitive > enough to try it at the trot! :-) >
Is "competitive" another word for brain damaged? I was at Big South Fork a couple of years ago and traveling at a nice steady trot in a pretty tight string of horses and thought I'd try loading dry electrolytes while going down the trail. I was about third in line and they were all traveling nice and steady so I stuffed my sponge under the front of my saddle, took the canister of dry electrolytes out of my zippered pocket. Sort of dropped the reins while I held the syringe in one hand (plugging the bottom with a finger since I'd lost the cap) and the plunger & electrolytes in the other. Then I took out a waterbottle to pour water down into the top of the syringe. About that time the Yahoo who was 2nd in line (who I had never seen before ...no helmet, long hair blowing in the breeze, and a big western show saddle on her Arab) decided to pass the leader and take off downhill at a gallop. Kaboot bolted after her...my finger came off the bottom of the syringe as I grabbed for the reins. The dry electrolyes drained out like sand through an hour glass all over my horse...while I tried to haul Kaboot down from a mad gallop on a downhill with pieces of the syringe in both hands the sponge came out from under the front of my saddle and was dragging by the wrist loop and snapping at his heels. I thought I did pretty well. I only dropped the film canister and I lived.
That's the long version of. "I don't recommend mixing at a trot".
Angie
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