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We put a crupper with a leather tailpiece (outside seam) on my horse, lunged 
him, and he bucked so violently...very unlike him...that he rubbed the 
underside of his tail and on either side of his anus raw and bloody.  I have 
waited until he completely healed and someday I will try again with a 
different crupper with a soft, seamless tailpiece and see how he reacts.  He 
had been ridden with one before I bought him, so he should accept it again. 
He just didn't like the one I put on him.  He has very sensitive skin.

Barbara



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lucy Chaplin Trumbull" <elsietee@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2006 6:06 PM
Subject: [RC] crupper training


> My mare, Mouse, is very short-backed and needed a
> crupper to stop the saddle jamming her shoulders
> on our numerous steep hills.
>
> Unlike most of the stories I've seen here, she did
> not settle to the crupper calmly and without incident.
>
> The first time I put it on (adjusted not too tight),
> she was fine so long as she knew it was me back there,
> fiddling with it. Leading her while walking was also
> fine, but as soon as we started trotting in hand (I
> didn't have a round pen, so had to do this on a lunge
> line) she tucked, felt the crupper and went ballistic.
> She was bucking around so hard, making donkey noises,
> that my husband inside the house came running out to
> see what had happened. Had there been an obstacle in
> the way - say a tree - I have no doubt she would have
> bucked straight into it.
>
> After more thought on the whole idea, I ended up
> putting it on her, but leaving it really loose, so
> it never engaged. I started off just reaching back,
> rubbing her butt, then gently yanking on the crupper
> every so often. Over the weeks, I gradually tightened
> it little by little, until one day we were going down
> a steep hill and I looked back and the crupper was doing
> its job.
>
> That's not to say I didn't have a few interesting
> incidents with her later on - one such riding the
> Tevis trail at night, stopping to get out a munchy
> bar - reins in mouth, crop stuffed under my leg
> while I tried to unwrap it. She heard the rustle
> of the paper in the dark, scootled slightly, felt
> the crupper and started crow hopping - luckily I
> was able to reach back and tug on the crupper to
> reassure her that it wasn't a lion leaping on her
> butt.
>
> I used a Zilco crupper, but had some problems with
> the edge of the plastic that the tail piece fits
> into rubbing hair out. Anyone else had that problem?
> I ended up taping it with electrical tape, but it
> was a bit sticky when it got warm.
>
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> Lucy Chaplin Trumbull
> elsietee AT foothill DOT net
> Repotted english person in the Sierra foothills, California
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