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The point of a horshoe nail is one of the sharpest objects you can find.  
Why not just pull out a switchblade knife on the poor horse (poor because 
someone would even think of using such a training method)?

That point of the nail is the danger of shoe'n a horse.  It will go thru the 
layers of human skin quicker than any scalpel.  Watch your farrier sometime 
and notice how quickly he will cut off that point, for his own safety, when 
he shoes your horse.

Please, find another method of training.  Or, another hobby.

cya,
Howard


> From: Bar JM Ranch <barjmranch@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [RC]   sticking them with a horse nail
> Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 12:21:14 -0800 (PST)
>
> 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
>
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