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As an equine expert, I train have trined very many horses to do and not do 
very many things.  I consider coming when called an essential part of horse 
training.  It's not very difficult.

If you would like to know how to train a horse to come when you call, and 
stand still while you put the halter on, so you don't have to chase them (no 
matter how large the pasture) -- please send a private eInquiry to 
ozarkequitation@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

Ginny Holsman
Ozark Equitation



> From: Christina Schiro <christina@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: treelesssaddles@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, horsesctr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,  
> ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [RC]   UPATE ON MY Hard-to-catch-horse all of a sudden
> Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 14:55:29 -0800 (PST)
>
> Thanks to everyone that wrote back with their opinions, thoughts, and 
> suggestions! I have taken it all into account and will reread ALL the 
> emails again tomorrow. Here is what has happened since I wrote to you all 
> with my problem:
>
>   I asked Kellye to turn Ice out in the arena by himself and fed him his 
> dinner there. I went the next morning before he was fed breakfast. While he 
> watched with interest, I went into the arena with a carrot but without his 
> halter and sat on the mounting block in the middle of the arena. First Ice 
> walked past me to his bucket by the gate because he thought his breakfast 
> was in there. After realizing there was no food there, he walked a big 
> circle around me, stopped, and looked at me. After a minute or two, I got 
> up and walked in his direction, but after a couple steps he starting 
> trotting. I left the arena, walked to the round pen nearby, and picked up 
> the lounge whip. As I walked back towards the arena, he was still watching 
> me and made a bee-line at a walk towards the arena gate and was standing 
> there by the time I got there. I put the whip down, opened the gate, gave 
> him some scratches, and put his halter on. I tied him up and checked out 
> the short-hair spots. You can see the
>  black skin beneath, but his roan flea-bitten spots are still there (so 
> there are no "white spots" from pressure). I brushed the backside of my 
> nails gently across many areas and he flinched a little bit over that area. 
> I loaded him in the trailer and took him to a previous appointment to get 
> him microchipped. When I got back, I put him back in the arena by himself. 
> The next morning, Kellye had returned him to the pasture with the rest of 
> the horses. So I went into the pasture with the halter, made right angles 
> towards him, and didn't look him in the eye directly. He high-tailed it to 
> the other end of the pasture. I kept him moving him with my voice, lead 
> rope, and occassionaly I ran a couple steps, but mostly I just walked a 
> little bit. I didn't have my watch but it was probably about 15-20 minutes 
> of him galloping around and getting a couple other horses involved. 
> Sometimes he would stop, turn towards me, and look at me. I would start to 
> make right angles towards him again, but he
>  would take off again. Finally, one last time he stopped and I was able to 
> walk right-angles toward him until I reached his side, petted/scratched 
> him, and put the halter on. I took him to the barn, gave him a treat, and 
> brushed him, then turned him out again. I did some other things for about 
> 1/2 hour and went out to the pasture again with the halter. He saw me 
> coming and trottted off in one circle, but then let me catch him. Much 
> better. I will continue to use this method of catching him. I am giving him 
> a few weeks off of no riding. Just catching him and doing other stuff with 
> him and to let more of the hair grow back. He is getting his teeth checked 
> by a dentist this Sunday. I'm going to get the chiropracter/bioscan lady 
> out in a few weeks. I am going to look into getting an anti-slip pad to put 
> underneath my skito and equipedic pads so that my treeless saddle doesn't 
> move around so much. I am also going to borrow a friends arabian-tree 
> saddle to see if he acts any differently
>  under saddle, although he acts just fine now. But maybe somehow he will 
> act better.
>
> Christina Schiro <christina@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>     When I purchased my current 13 yo Arab Gelding in Feb '05, he was very 
> hard to catch in the pasture.

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