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Re: [RC] sticking them with a horse nail - Chris PausYes, most of us have seen things done to horses that we hope are not done anymore. chris --- Bar JM Ranch <barjmranch@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: I have heard of this but not as discipline. I rode western pleasure quarter horses in the seventies. A mare I showed had been stuck with a nail to teach her to keep her head below the horizontal. I never used a nail on her and wouldn't want to, but whenever her head would drift too high in the show ring, all I had to do was poke her at the top of the withers, just in front of the saddle horn, with my finger and she would lower her head again. Again, don't advocate, but I believe this was the original intention. I have also shown Tennessee Walkers and American Saddlebreds (in the seventies) and saw many using hot sauce under the tail to "encourage" a high tail carriage in horses that didn't have the tendon cut and tail set. Melanie in Greece ===== Melanie in Greece http://www.geocities.com/barjmranch/ __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance Tax Center - File online. File on time. http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html ============================================================ One of the great joys of being a pompous idiot is that you can do and think whatever you want. ~ Homer Safferwiffle ridecamp.net information: http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/ ============================================================ ===== "A good horse makes short miles," George Eliot Chris and Star BayRab Acres http://pages.prodigy.net/paus ============================================================ Far back, far back in our dark soul the horse prances... The horse, the horse! The symbol of surging potency and power of movement, of action... ~ DH Lawrence ridecamp.net information: http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/ ============================================================
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