Just make sure your horse can cross deep water...it comes up at 6
miles.....
Tammy Robinson Trail-Rite Products 18171 Lost Creek
Road Saugus, CA 91390 661/513-9269 office 661/713-3912
cell 661/513-9206 fax www.trail-rite.com
In a message dated 6/26/2008 8:56:48 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
sherman@xxxxxxxxxxx writes:
There
are many mentors available, but they generally wait until they are asked
for help, otherwise their advice could appear as sticking their nose in
where it's not wanted (:>) Unfortunately, many times inexperienced
people don't know what they don't know, don't know where to look for info
they don't know they need, etc.
When I first started doing endurance
ride, just 4 years ago, I'd take my horse up to the start and wait along
with all the others. Many horses were misbehaving, some bucking, spinning,
backing into us, kicking, so on and so forth. Now that I have a little more
knowledge and know that a few minutes doesn't mean there's not enough time
to complete the ride, my daughter and I get on our horses 30 minutes before
the start and we walk and walk and walk, then when everyone leaves the
start we go over there and walk just a bit of the start, when all the
excitement is past, we can trot out. We avoid being in the middle of the
chaos, it's safer for the horses with less risk of getting kicked and
injured, and same for us as it keeps us away from the anxious horses. Our
horses are calm and cool by the time we start trotting, have gotten a good
warm-up so it lessens the risk of tying-up.
Try it next ride, you'll
like
it!
Kathy
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