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I have a very clever 14'1" mare who decided to try rearing as a means of evasion when she was about 5. A very tall riding friend offered to ride her for me and irritated her enough to elicit a rear. As she went up, he just slid his feet onto the ground and the second her front feet hit the ground, he was in the saddle again. She decided that it didn't work and never did it again.

A friend of mine who is a superb rider bought a gelding a few years ago who had been very thoroughly taught to rear and he's still basically unridable. Every thing that they've tried has been to no avail. Not a fun trick at all. I'll stick with the non-rearing mare.

Maryanne

On 9/12/07, Amy <scharmen@xxxxxxx> wrote:

I have a horse who pulls back when he gets afraid although he's much better
than he used to be (he also reared over once).  But I just had the vet out
and when he went to pull back and rear up a little, the assistant tapped him
on the forehead.  He came back down.  When he tried it again, again the tap
on the forehead and that was the last time he tried it.  I could really see
the tap calm him down and get through to him that he didn't need to rear up,
very cool and definitely something I am going to remember for the future.

Amy

----- Original Message -----
From: "Barbara McCrary" <bigcreekranch@xxxxxxxxxxxx >
To: "Bruce Weary DC" <bweary@xxxxxxxxxxxx>; "Ridecamp (E-mail)"
<Ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2007 2:04 PM
Subject: Re: [RC] Rearing


> Over 40 years ago, when we bought our eldest daughter her first horse, the
> horse quickly pulled the trick of not wanting to leave the yard and our
> other horse.  He started rearing.


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