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Re: [RC] [RC] Bucking - Ridecamp GuestPlease Reply to: Nicole z_arabs@xxxxxxxxx or ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ========================================== With close to 50 years riding experience, including the training of about 30 horses, I will say 'they all buck' at least once in their lifetime. Gee, I'm not quite to 45 years of riding experience, and am likely not quite up to 30 trained (although I've trained my share), and I honestly have to say that I've only had a few that ever bucked. Spook, shy, jump around, yes--but buck, no. And I've ridden a few of those through their lifetimes... I'm only at about 25+ years riding experience & 10-15 horses trained or re-trained (had a couple that came to me "trained" but needed to be completely restarted). Like Heidi, I've only had... umm... one? that bucked. And he only did it when learning to canter out on trail, and it was very clearly a "yeehaa!" buck that he only did a handful of times and never again. I'm really racking my brains trying to come up with another buck. I can't come up with one. Reminds me of a NH guru I was watching on RFDTV the other day. He said something like "95% of horses started in conventional methods will buck on their first ride" vs his method where "95% don't buck on the first ride" (or something like that, sorry, those may not be the exact percentages he used). Anyway, I use "conventional" -- ie. dressage & patience -- methods to start youngsters and I've NEVER had a buck on a first ride, and as noted above I can only think of one bucker ever. Made me think that his definition of "conventional" and mine were not the same. Of course, the horse in his demo while he was talking about these percentages did what *I* would consider a buck and he said "that doesn't count." ~Nicole ============================================================ And remember, an arab's fourth gait is the spook! ~ Jeanie Miller ridecamp.net information: http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/ ============================================================
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