A reining horse is not going 20 mph and most spooking horses are not
going 20 mph. A reining horse doesn't have the room to get up to 20
mph. It all my years with horses I've yet to see one that once they got
into a head on head race with another horse wasn't so focused that you
could bring them down in less than about 100 meters.
Or another way to look at it is at 20 mph a horse will cover almost 10
yards a second. Even if you could react in a second (which is doubtful)
and the horse could react to your que in a second (which is doubtful)
and stop in another second (which is doubtful) you already covered
almost 30 years ( or 3/10 of a football field) by the time you could
stop. Better to have a clear run out at the end - 100 meters would be
very nice. I've seen finishes of 100 mile rides where the horses were
so focused that it took almost a quarter mile to bring them back down.
Go back to the MT incident about 5 years ago and read the decision of
the P&G committee - it was pretty clear.
Truman
Carol wrote:
Truman wrote:
Think about how long it takes to do an emergency stop in a car
at 20 mph ( or 1/3 mile per minute which is 587 yards or almost six
football fields). Then at least double or triple that distance for
stopping a horse at 20 mph.
Give me a break, haven't you ever
seen a reining horse or a roping horse stop at a sliding stop? Or
better yet, ask Alice how fast her 1000lb horse can stop when he
spooks. The problem is when the rider can't "control" their horse.
Carol
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ourselves,
and only
We
imitate our masters
only because we are not yet masters ourselves, and only
because
in doing so we
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