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Re: [RC] kids and horses/"older" men and horses - Truman PrevattDVeritas@xxxxxxx wrote:/Truman said/: " A small child does not have the strength to manage a 700 to It's up to Lucy - she is an adult. I suspect my grandparents were a bit negligent - although I though I was invincible. Every kid does. Those were different times. Today they might have been in the cross hairs of a local DA that decided to grow a set of fangs and at least in some states would have the tools to make their very life miserable. I lived, I might not have, but I did. I don't seem to have any long term effect from it - however, there is some dissension to that conclusion ;-) . When the rubber hits the road - that is the only thing that matters. Do I respect horses - you bet I do. But even as a HW that can still press quite a bit of weight, I had a horse run away from me at an endurance ride when another horse blew past mine without a rider, knocked my foot out of the stirrup. As mine took off I had to get my foot back in the stirrup and by the time I did my horse was at a flat out run chasing the other horse and I couldn't snatch him up no matter what I did. I went down on that one to, but only had a bit or road rash. Am I going to stop riding - nope not at all. Truman -- "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." - Albert Einstein =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 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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