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> Bad idea to have your own safety and that of your horse depend on 
> someone else.  In that situation problems might have been avoided if 
> the woman who was being tailgated should have pulled off the trail 
> and refused to go on until the man on the grey passed.  I do that 
> when I'm being tailgated while driving a car, and I've done it when 
> riding a horse.
>
> It bears repeating:  Bad idea to have your own safety and that of 
> your horse depend on someone else.
>
> ________________________________
>    Lif Strand      fasterhorses.com


First you have to have a place to pull off!

I had a similar experience at my first 50 attempt, at Pine Valley.  I 
was half way down a rocky knife ridge trail when a hot shoe LD-er 
(and let's not go there -- I usually ride LD <g>) came zooming up on 
my mare's butt, and stayed there.  She was freaking, but I didn't 
want her to kick (she had a red ribbon) -- not out of concern for the 
other horse, but because it could have sent both of us over the edge. 
There simply wasn't any place to pull off for a couple hundred yards 
-- and I screamed that at the guy, who refused to pull back. 
Eventually, we got to a point where I could find a few feet to perch 
on on the side of the trail and he zoomed on his way -- but not 
before ,my thoroughly distracted mare took a misstep in the rocks and 
got a suspensory pull that caused us to pull at the next vet check. 
The tailgater finished -- we didn't.
--


Lynn Kinsky, Santa Ynez, CA
http://www.silcom.com/~lkinsky/

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