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> Well, what you really do is just hang out with them.  Ride with them for 
> awile, pretend they're your new buddies, your new pals.  Laugh too loudly 
> and too often, tell a few off color, really bad jokes, start telling them 
> about your sister's outrageous sex life with the basketball team when she 
> was in college, in detail, discuss politics (I'm a Communist), religion (I 
> think we should all return to Paganism, it makes things so much simpler) >

> > > > > Yeah, then you could just eat your enemies  ;0)

> My friend used to get all blown up and bent out of shape at how rude people 
> were out on trail...especially those who were just walking there horses 
> while we where "training" on trail.  Usually comments range from..."Why 
> don't you slow down!"  "You can't ride there!" "Watch it!" "Get out of my 
> way" "You shouldn't canter on trail!" "Stop running (when we were 
> trotting)" and it goes on with other nasty comments to just plain dirty 
> looks, etc.  Anyway, I take a bit of a different approach and act more 
> concerned for the person and make sure they have complete control of their 
> horse and just straight out ask them if they are going to be okay out here 
> in the woods...on trail...outside of the arena.   I'm getting really tired 
> of people who expect you to walk or trot slower because they have no 
> control of their own horses.  No, none of us run past others or run up on 
> them.  We ask if we can pass and when we get by, ask if we can trot away.  
> I'm talking about being 100 yards from someone at a
>  canter, slow down and approach at an easy trot, then a walk to go by.  My 
> point to this is that I should NOT have to ride my horse for other people. 
> If they truly feel that my canter or trot 100 yards away from them is 
> causing their horse to be out of control, then I'm sorry but they need to 
> go back to the barn and practice some control.  I'm never rude...just 
> concerned...and to a point "shaming" them for how they act towards us.  I'm 
> just getting tired of it.
>
> Stacy
>
> John Lyons says a Trail Horse has to be better trained than an arena 
> horse--"If you don't have control where you ride , don't ride 
> there....."Ride where you can (safely), not where you can't".

  I rode with some day riders once and they scared the doo do out of me. I 
thought at the time my horse had problems---and he was much better behaved 
than those horses and safer ,a dnhe has had his moments.
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