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Boy howdy, that never goes away! My 21 year old
stallion was a race horse in his younger years. He ran
a lot... 45 career starts, 11 wins, in the money half
his races...I can tell he still wants to go. He plays
"starting gate" at times and looks like a cartoon
charactger with the wheels spinning .. he just can
flat out fly when he wants to... 

He hasn't done that with me on his back  yet, but I'll
bet when I get the nerve to let him go, it the wind
will bring tears to my eyes!

chris
--- Truman Prevatt <tprevatt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> My wife's horse spent a little time on the track and
> I will tell you 
> although he has had (and still gets) 3 years of
> dressage training, has 
> been trained to do what is asked of him, if he
> smells race - that's what 
> he does race.
>
> You can take absolutely no chances with him because
> if he gets in a race 
> mode and gets away from you for even a step or two
> it may be all over. 
> She always rides him with a pelham and two reins -
> one on the snaffle 
> which is used 99.9% of the time the other on the
> curb which is used for 
> the time the brain flips into race mode.
>
> Truman
>
> Ed & Wendy Hauser wrote:
>
> > "It is possible to ride a horse at top speed in a
> >  
> >
> > > pack, and have the horse stop when asked.  It just
> takes training. True,
> > > lots of it."
> > >    
> > That depends on the horse.  Certain strains of
> horses have been selected for
> > an extremely long time to have an extreme desire to
> win.  I owned a speed
> > quarter horse who was the best trained horse I have
> ever owned.  He was the
> > horse I put 2 year olds on.  He was as steady as
> any police horse in
> > traffic.  He did rate easily during an endurance
> ride (defined in his mind
> > as a group of horses that were not passing him at a
> dead run) But if a horse
> > race started (defined in his mind as either being
> asked to run, or by being
> > passed by another horse at a dead run)  it was like
> he was a completely
> > different horse.  He had to win. Period.  End of
> discussion.  He would only
> > be beaten by a faster horse.  After he had won,
> defined in his mind as being
> > first by a couple of lengths, he would slow down.
> >
> > You can talk all you want about training etc. but
> unless you have owned a
> > horse that had winning as his number one priority,
> you don't know what
> > single mindedness is.
> >
> > Ed
> > Ed & Wendy Hauser
> > 2994 Mittower Road
> > Victor, MT 59875
> >
> > ranch@xxxxxxxxxxx
> > 406.642.6490
> >  
> -- 
>
> We imitate our masters only because we are not yet
> masters ourselves, 
> and only
>
> because in doing so we learn the truth about what
> cannot be imitated.
>
>  

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"A good horse makes short miles," George Eliot

Chris and Star

BayRab Acres
http://pages.prodigy.net/paus
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