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Oh my, I believe that I know a certain chestnut mare like this and if 
you get any sure fire solutions, I want to hear them. Mine is a young 
17 yr old and she is intensely competitive, but due to a couple of 
nasty accidents, she hasn't the legs to live up to her own standards. 
Nevertheless, if she is in the desert and on the way home, the words 
"flat walk" just go whizzing through her ears, through her brain, and 
out the other side.  I just learned to sit it and let her  jig.
 Maryanne Stroud Gabbani
Cairo, Egypt
www.alsorat.com

And Dorika who doesn't believe this at all:
"The trail is the thing, not the end of the trail. Travel too fast and 
you miss all you are traveling for"  Louis L'Amour


On Sunday, Jul 25, 2004, at 20:08 Africa/Cairo, Jan Rainey wrote:

> I am having a frustrating problem with 1 horse.... I cannot get
> her to WALK on the trail when riding with other horses... she wants to
> jig or do a really slow jog.   She does not jig like this in the 
> arenas at home,
> nor when I am trail-riding by ourselves... only when with other horses.
> I have tried stopping & facing other direction until she relaxes, I 
> have tried
> backing her up, I have tried "using" the energy & doing shoulder-ins
> or haunches-in along the trail, I have tried picking up the reins/rope 
> & doing
> a "trombone" motion, I have tried relaxing every muscle & joint, I
> have tried just walking the opposite direction down the trail.... she 
> still doesn't
> get it,
> and will take maybe 3 walk steps, then start to jig again.   What am I 
> doing wrong?
> What can I try to get her more relaxed?   She also seems to start this 
> jiggy
> stuff when I am tired, or when we are headed BACK home (she KNOWS all 
> the
> trails really well!).  Other than this I am real pleased with her.... 
> anyone
>  have some constructive suggestions?
> Thanks in advance,
> :) J


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