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[RC] Tank - Ridecamp GuestPlease Reply to: Lynn Salisbury lasah@xxxxxxxxx or ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ========================================== Hi Jackie, I've had similar problems with my horse (not that this is Tank's Problem)I finally became aware that there are things/places that he'd just as soon avoid. He would rather go back out on the trail than go back to the trailer. He would rather head back towards the trailer if it means he has to cross a certain river with large river rock that he slides around on. Etc..... I can have a wonderful ride between these two obsticles or other unmentioned ones. So we can have a great ride between two particular "things" and he turns punky, balky, uncertain, yawny as he nears the unwanted thing. It was you mentioning having to drag Tank the last 20 feet to the trailer that rang a bell here. I Looked and looked for lameness/pain/physical issues. Spent plenty of cash on diagnostics. Got a heart rate monitor to see if that would give input to pain. No blips on the monitor. Sometimes I'm still uncertain and wonder if adrenalin fuels him when he's up and then when that wears off he doesn't feel "good". I lean now towards the thought that if it's not "things" he doesn't like it's boredom or my lack of horsemanship. Having had a great ride with a friend we were heading back to my trailer because I had an appt and then she was going back to her barn. Had a balky slow seemingly footsore or some kind of sore horse (made me feel I'd overdone it) until I found I'd dropped my phone. Turned around and He was a new horse. Fire breathing. Same location different day rode a fast ~10 miles with a friend waiting for a group to meet us that wanted to ride slower and he punked all the way back to the parking lot. I was 50 feet behind his buddy and he was quickly loosing ground at a walk. Can you say slowwwwww. He'd have stopped if I let him. Did another 10 miles with the slower group and he didn't punk at all even heading back to the trailer this time. Happy, jiggy, competitive. Drives me crazy. If it's a new trail he doesn't know, he's happy, forward, curious. Same old trail he'll pull the above behavior. Good Luck. Lynn =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- 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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