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I have used this method with my mare while at my instructor's place, but it is not really a good substittute for training a horse to load.

 

K.

On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 9:52 AM, Mike Sherrell <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Because the ropes run up through a ring in front (typically the point that the trailer tie attaches to) and then back to you, the technical term I think is "snubbed", like I believe "dally", i.e., the friction at the snub point gives you enough advantage that the horse can't outpull you. This is the same principle that ropers use when they snub the rope around the saddle horn, and you know it gives them enough of an advantage that they can flip a big calf going full tilt or just plain stop a runaway cow. No, I'm not kidding.

 

Regards,

 

Mike Sherrell

Grizzly Analytical (USA)

www.grizzlyanalytical.com

707 887 2919; fax = 707 887 9834

 

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From: Dawn Carrie [mailto:rdcarrie@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Monday, October 20, 2008 9:03 AM
To: mike@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: Ridecamp
Subject: Re: FW: [RC] Hard Headed Horses

<<Keep as much tension on the ropes as possible (i.e., wrap them around your forearm and lean hard),>>

 

Are you serious???  This sounds like a good way to lose your arm!!!!  If that horse decides it's going to run backwards, it's going to run backwards.  You can wrap that rope around whatever body part you want, and any horse is going to put pull you.

 

I've had better luck by using a lunge whip (or long branch) and tapping lightly (but continuously) on the horse's butt till it takes a step forward, then pausing as reward, then tapping again till I get forward progress, etc.  Hasn't worked very well on my ultra pigheaded gelding, but then he's kinda "special."

 

Dawn