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Re: [RC] Rearing Horses - Chris PausExactly. So many people, myself included before I learned more about horsemanship, think the answer is to put on a tie down, hold the horse's head in place and he won't rear. Not true.. .it's a matter of going back to the beginning, often the very beginning of the horse's training and filling in the holes and teaching him better responses. Very often the rider contributes to the issue by hanging on the horse's mouth with a death grip on the reins, squeezing him like a tube of toothpaste with your legs, etc, making a volatile situation worse. At the time of my accident, I was not an accomplished enough horsewoman to have the right tools in my toolbox to deal with this. Now I do have the tools, but at 53, I have a much stronger sense of my own mortality and am not willing to put myself in that kind of danger. chris --- "katswig@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <katswig@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: Assuming that you are talking about rearing up under saddle, the causes for this can be distilled down to about four: 1. Too much bit in too heavy of hands. 2. Resistance to going forward. 3. Some kind of physical pain/discomfort. 4. The horse thinks that is what it is supposed to do. or 5. Some combination of the above. :) ===== "A good horse makes short miles," George Eliot Chris and Star BayRab Acres http://pages.prodigy.net/paus =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net. Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/Ridecamp Subscribe/Unsubscribe http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/logon.asp Ride Long and Ride Safe!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
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