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> ... If you have worked with your
> horse so that it will lower it's head and keep it there, while you introduce
> and the horse accepts, the bridle, you have achieved a certain communication
> and respect with that horse.

And one can do all that without the theatrics of kneeling to bridle.



> Just as cleaning all four of the horse's hooves from one side of the horse.
> I certainly would not want to do this every time, but, again, it is a great
> exercise occasionally.

It is common practice amongst the TB racing crowd. Leastways, that's where 
I picked up the habit. All my horses  are accustomed to this (well, not the 
baby...yet.)

MHO is that  while Parelli and other "NH"  types may  say, in a sort of 
fine print fashion, "don't expect to get this far in one day" or "don't try 
this at home, kids", the flashy demos  promote  the quick fix and  a lot of 
downright dangerous stuff--at least dangerous for a novice to try--and the 
novice is precisely who these things are aimed at.

I have no objection to all the  "NH" types currently roaming the 
counrtyside and fleecing the sheep. Good for them--about time horsepeople 
figured out how to make a buck. Some people can and will pay lots of money 
to be taught plain common sense.

 I just hate to see novices get hurt and horses get undeserved bad 
reputations for  causing damage, when the wreck that took place might have 
been avoided.

I do suspect that if many of the devotees of these people didn't hook up 
with them, they'd be doing some other nonsensical  stuff, as the majority 
seem to be folks who have  little or no horse background before  they 
get  involved with "NH", so maybe it's a wash. I just wish someone would 
come along and convince some of the unexposed to horses till late adulthood 
crowd that they are *not* just big dogs,  and they *are* big and fairly 
dumb and can  hurt you badly. (And, more to the point, hurt your vet, and 
farrier, and anyone else unfortunate enough to be in the vicinity when they 
are ineffectual at restraining their beasts.)
                          --CMNewell


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