Re: [RC] my endurance buggy horse!!!!(safety first) - Barbara McCrary
We had one such experience trying to break a horse to
cart. He took off, minus driver, crossed a wooden bridge, hung a sharp
left down a paved county road, then a sharp right into a neighbors yard and we
finally found him on his side under the bottom rail of a board fence. The
cart was flipped over, the harness all wrapped around the horse. We
dismantled the harness, strap by strap and rescued the poor guy. Had he
not been immobilized by the bottom board, it would have been far more dangerous
an operation than it turned out to be. We never attempted to work with
this particular horse again, as we realized he just was too frightened to be
reliable.
I cannot emphasize the wisdom of Jonni's word too
much. We've been there, done that, and had some awful wrecks of our
own. Fortunately, no injured people or horses, but some of our collection
of rigs are not quite what they used to be.
Subject: [RC] my endurance buggy
horse!!!!(safety first)
. Being around carriage horses, I have seen some
horrible, horrible wrecks. As far as horse involved wrecks, horses who were
being driven are the worst. The horse will have total fear. Once they take
off, nothing usually stops then until they run into something, or go down and
get caught in harness or something else and can't get back up.
