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Hello Chelsea,
This has always worked well for me. I get up at least 1 hour before 
the 50's start and feed the horse and tack up but just snug enough to 
keep the saddle on then let the horse eat and watch the 50's leave 
for the start. IMHO having the saddle on all this time virtually 
eliminates the cold back syndrome. As soon as the 50's are gone I 
mount up and go to the start and ride out a ways and back and try 
trotting some. Usually if the horse is gonna act up he will do it 
when I ask to move out so now I have time before the real start to 
work out the humping and head tossing and get a controlled trot going 
and then I ask for the trot and then a walk over and over if 
necessary but I definitely keep walking all around and back to the 
start and try to time it so I am at the other side of camp when the 
ride really starts and then just walk right on out past the number 
takers. During the ride I try to make everything the horse does "my 
idea". At the start I know the horse is pumped and wants to go so I 
ask for the trot before we get into a fight about it then pull back 
to a walk for a minute then trot some more. While trotting, if the 
trail is wide enough, I change lanes so to speak to let the horse 
know I'm in control. I wiggle the bit with light pressure to slow the 
trot and release right away when I get it to say I'm in control. So 
basically I try to stay one step ahead of what the horse wants and 
not start any fights but hey it's a horse and $hit happens. Good 
luck, because it's always nice to have. :-)


At 11:21 AM 11/26/2006 Sunday, you wrote:

>  What can I do to make sure that I
> won't lose control of her in a large group of horses in riders?
>
> Thanks a lot for the help!
> Chelsea
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>   Chelsea Marsh
>   chelsea_marsh@xxxxxxxxxxx
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