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In a message dated 4/2/04 1:19:09 PM Pacific Standard Time, 
greymare56@xxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:

<< Forget the crap about 7 falls make a horseman......the more jolts your 
body gets the more long-term damage you inflict.
One of those falls may REALLY hurt you.  It's bad advice; in my book, being 
a good horseman means keeping the horse between you and the ground >>

Boy if that ain't the truth.  Sitting here healing up from a busted pelvis 
(NOT due to a rotten horse, just one whose training I neglected in one aspect) 
I 
can say that it's a lot harder to heal up the older you get, and all those 
previous falls come back to haunt you in the process.  I hurt my tailbone 
sledding in January, and then the pelvis, I'm double sore, and longer healing 
than 
just the bone, everything's been knocked out of whack.  

As far as the bucking  horse, I would also be inclined to look first for a 
source of soreness, then go back to some basics on the ground and see that you 
get obedience at every stage (starting with ground work) before moving on to 
canter and trot under saddle.  

It sounds as if something is making this guy unhappy--pain or not 
understanding or something.  jeri
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