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I have tried paddocks and electric fences at rides and know that sooner or later your horses are going to go through them and run free through camp...whether of their own accord or because something spooked them.   So I tie to the trailer now and they are tied short and there is no way they can lie down.   It is ideal, ccertainly not. But if you have ever seen a horse tied to a trailer with too long a lead rope who lay down to roll and then in rising, managed to get his foot and leg caught between the tire and the wheel well, you will make sure your horse is tied short.   You try to make up to the horse for the lack of mobility by walking him as frequently as possible.   Or you get some sort of plywood barrier between the horse's feet and the wheel well. Please make sure that if your horse can lie down, he can also get up without getting caught in the rope or under the trailer.   Julie Suhr