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Our first driving horse took to driving with that same ho-hum attitude and 
he was wonderful all through the rest of his life.  But we also tried to 
train another horse (see my previous post about the horse that ended up 
under the board fence) with the same dragging tire thing.  He took off, 
dragging the tire with him, downhill at a dead run.  The tire came off, 
thank goodness, but it is still somewhere down in the bottom of one of our 
deep, brush-covered gulches...40 years later.
He then turned uphill and jumped a 4.5 foot barbed wire fence from the 
downhill side...never left a hair on it nor pieces of harness...ran down a 
steep road for 3/4 mile and came to a stop at another barbed wire fence 
along the edge of a creek.  I agree..."fools walk in where angels fear to 
tread."
Do your ground work in a safe arena, and get out of the way if the horse 
panics and blows up.  I think about the British and their wonderful carriage 
horses, and I have to believe that the Brits breed horses for disposition 
and performance rather than pedigree, breed, or living works of art.

Barbara

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Flora Hillman" <auriga79@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, November 13, 2006 1:37 PM
Subject: Re: [RC] [RC] my endurance buggy horse!!!! (safety first)



> I, too, was horrified to read Jody's blissfully happy (and totally 
> innocent)
> post -- but can relate to her youthful exuberance because .... I, too, 
> once
> owned (30 years ago) a lovely 3/4 Thoroughbred (bless her dear departed
> soul) who took to driving with a totally ho-hum attitude.  We did
> essentially the same thing Jody did -- except we did the dragging the tire
> part (of  which this mare did without blinking an eye) and we decided that
> she'd already been taught to drive somewhere along her
> foxhunting/eventing/dressage/trail riding career....so we also hitched up
> and drove off, happy as clams.  She never put a foot wrong and up to the 
> day
> she died of old age years later she remained ever the *perfect* driving
> horse.
>
> The Gods take care of fools...but only once.  I learned later my mare was
> one of those rare individuals -- not other of the many, many driving
> horses/ponies I've owned and trained (except for one Thoroughbred) ever
> could be put to a carriage without any training at all.. and be perfect 
> from
> step one.



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