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agilbxr@xxxxxxx wrote:

> ok, and how do you teach good downhills to horses in northeast 
> florida.  Sigh...  The biggest hill is the anthill in my back yard. 
> That really isn't a challenge for Spot, or Alpine for that 
> matter...they just kind of hop over it.
>  
> The sand around here keeps those butt muscles in good shape thank 
> goodness, but since I don't have hills to train on, my version of 
> helping my horse on any hill we encounter is to give him his head and 
> stay the heck out of his way, up or down.  Oh, and I insist on 
> slow.  That annoyes Alpine a lot.  He doesn't do anything slow by 
> choice. But that's another matter altogether....
>  
> Juli and the Herd
> Spot (I TROTTED away from the barn today without a fight. Mom gave me 
> a bran mash upon return cause I was a good boy...)
> Alpine (I'm beginning to think that I don't ever get to have fun 
> again... I wanna go...)
>  

Head to Altoona, Tillis Hill or Croom. There are some hills in ONF - you 
might need a local to show where they are. There are some nice training 
hills at both Tillis Hill and Croom. Croom has a lot of old limestone 
pits - lots of up and down some pretty steep, but short enough the horse 
can't get in over his head. You don't need anything really big to get 
them started, you just need the slope. The thing you need for down hill 
is the same butt muscles he already has. He just needs to understand how 
to use them.

Truman

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"A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems."

- Paul Erdos (1913-1996)




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