[RC] New eyes watching - Trailrite
All during these chats about over riding, bad trail manners, etc. I feel that most riders are very concerned. This is not only for the sport itself, but for the horses. It seems to me that it just further proves the point that it only takes a few to destroy a perspective.
A couple of the new riders that have voiced a concern were new riders that we here at Trail-Rite have brought into this sport. As I expressed before, it's hard to smooth it over when this is going on. Even though we explain that it isn't the normal attitude of our basic rider...they will look and say, "But look at that poor horse!" Most of us do not, of course, go into a ride with a do-or-die attitude, but some...it makes you wonder how this keeps happening so many times to their horses. If their is a 100 riders and one horse has been over ridden to the point of collapse, and put on IV's guess where all eyes look. I know this can happen to anyone at any rides, it's happened to me once in 1995. But that was in 1995. It doesn't happen 2-3 times a year. I learned what happened and made corrections in hopes it wouldn't happen again. I'm sure the line is thin and delicate of how and why your horse takes a turn for the down.
But, my bottom line is...listen to the new riders coming in. Even though you might not agree, it's how it looks to them and that is a fact. I don't ever want them to feel that it should not be a big alarm to end up with an exhausted horse. We teach them to the best of our knowledge of how to prevent it in happening.
I tell our clients that the reason I tell them not-to do something, is because I learned the hard way, and now I'm passing to field experienced back to them.
Tammy Robinson
Trail-Rite Ranch & Products
18171 Lost Creek Road
Saugus, CA 91390
661/513-9269 or 713-3912
www.Trail-Rite.com email:trailrite@xxxxxxx
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