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Re: [RC] Bucking - Barbara McCraryWhen riding with my niece one day, her filly bucked her off. Turned out she had a very small redwood limb stuck in her tail in such a way that the point of it was up under her tail and gouging her at the connecting point of her tail and body. OUCH!!!! Barbara ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ridecamp Guest" <guest-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, June 14, 2004 1:27 PM Subject: [RC] Bucking Please Reply to: Lianne Cantrall dcantrall105@xxxxxxx or ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ========================================== I haven't had horses buck very often with me, usually just a playful pop, but two weeks ago I had an all out rodeo under me. I did not know what caused the rodeo until I bailed to save my life. As the horse went buckin g past me off trail into the brushy forest , I saw a huge bramble stuck to his tail and wraped into his Hind End. This Horse thought the cougar had landed. It wasn't just a little bramble, it was the inch long thorns that dig in and will not let go. I never saw it coming because he caught it from behind with his tail. He bolted forward and bucked like I have never felt. I tried to bend him to a stop. His head was tense and in the bucking position, I could not reel him in. I have never had that feeing before. He knows the one rein stop, I ride him in a ropehalter all the time. But this guy went straight to his right brain and there was no coming back. He headed off trail into the trees and brush. I did not want to become mince meat so I baled. If it had been in the desert with open terrian and no mud to slip and fall on , I would have tried to ride it out. In my book , no horse is bomb proof. But I did find him, or my neighbor who was out riding in another direction found my horse a half mile away. We lived to ride another day. He has marks on the back of his hind end where the thorns took hold. Poor guy, I hate those things, I know how he felt. A few days later I decided I better try the desensitize him. I cut some bramlbes and rubbed him all over with them dangling around and underneath him. He hardly looked at them. It was he thorns that hooked him and would'nt let go that got to him. I still have a big bruise in my buttocks to prove it. My arm ached for aday, the arm that tried to pull his head around on a bucking horse. Lianne It is how we "feel" deep inside that matters, cause each of us knows the truth, regardless of how we try make it complicated. It just isn't. ~ Frank Solano ridecamp.net information: http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/ ============================================================ I think the term P&R, now, is really "Peeanar"... a word that means "vet check". ~ Bonnie ridecamp.net information: http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/ ============================================================
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