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It all gets back to management or risk and the RM being aware of risk 
management in the lay out of the trail.When you get a 100 horses on a 
trail "any damn thing can happen and probably will." The question is 
what would be the the result if it did happen and lay out the trail in 
such a way that the seriousness of the result can be mitigated.

Of course there is only so much the RM can do. They can preach all day 
long about a "one mile section of trail with holes so slow down through 
that area." The can mare the area and hell even mark every hole. But if 
someone choses to  gallop through there is little a RM can do.

Truman

Heidi Smith wrote:

> Not necessarily.  Unless you simply have trails with no drops in elevation
> off of them at all.  Consider--bee stings, chukkars flying up under your
> horse, etc., any of which could cause a horse to panic and lose his footing
> on an otherwise "safe" trail.  My husband and his horse fell off of a trail
> a few years ago (fortunately no injury to horse and only minor scraped skin
> to husband) when some silly man in a flapping red poncho came bumping down
> the hillside above them on his butt, and refused to answer back when my
> husband tried to strike up conversation so that horse could identify this
> alien as a human being.  (And we are talking a fairly experienced and
> EXTREMELY agile trail horse here...)  So while it behooves management to
> have trails with reasonable safety, even those can become accident areas
> given enough provocation from unexpected factors.
>
> Heidi
>
>  




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