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First.. there are two kinds of splashing.  Splashing with head as in playing with the 
water and pawing, which is usually called... pawing.  "Splashing" doesn't muddy up 
anything, "pawing" does.

If I had a horse that didn't drink well away from the barn and out on a conditioning 
ride we stopped at some water where my horse put its head down and started splashing, 
smacking it with a crop certainly sounds like the right approach to encourage her to 
drink....  not.  Even on a Endurance ride, that "THWACK!!" would hardly be welcomed 
by riders of the other horses at a drinking spot.  Even the horses that didn't 
actually spook would still not want to get back near that water where they thought 
they might get smacked with a crop.

> Now about the splashing.. Ahem..it is considered bad manners to allow 
> your horse to splash in water sources.  It muddies up the creeks...
> I suggest you take along a small riding crop and 
> vigorously discourage your horse from splashing in the drinking water.


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