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[RC] Re-phrase on lead changes - k s swigartRay said: what are the pros and cons of the rider dictating this? Surely eventing horses do it on their own?(?) Most assuredly not eventing horses do not "do it on their own." The horse didn't walk the course, doesn't know how far it is between jumps, doesn't know when it is going to have to turn or which way and only somebody with a death wish would let the horse go into a turn and/or approach a big, fixed fence on the wrong lead and leave the horse to figure out for itself that it is sufficiently off balance that it needs to change leads. Far better to be on the correct lead before going into the turn...ask any barrel racer. kat Orange County, Calif. ============================================================ There is no better way to see the world than from the back of a horse. ~ Teddy Roosevelt ridecamp.net information: http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/ ============================================================
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