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Re: [RC] reason for horse going towards head light's? - Don HustonHello Jamie,Like Ed said, that is kind of strange but here is a possible cause. In San Diego there is a beach where you can ride horses in the surf, called Border State Park. After the horse gets accustomed to being in the water and we start walking and trotting the horse will have a hard time going straight as the surf is rushing in and out sideways to our line of travel. They seem confused for awhile and follow the water in and out going in a zig-zag pattern. It gets even funnier standing still and sideways to the surf. After several passes of the small waves a new horse will get a little wobbly and stagger a bit when they start to move forward. It has something to do with learning to separate the movement of the water from the firm sand underneath that they cannot see. Some learn quicker that others but soon we can blast down the beach in the shallow rushing surf with no problems. The water is hiding the sand just like the bright car lights are maybe blinding your horse enough that he cannot see the dark roadway underneath him and that is confusing him. Maybe you could park your car on a back street with the lights on and practice riding toward it. I'm sure your horse will figure it out. Don Huston At 09:51 AM 1/27/2008 Sunday, you wrote: We have to ride a mile or so along a reg used 2 lane road. While i would rather not ride along it I have never worried much as my horse has no problem's with car's or even semi's blowing past him he is a very level headed guy who almost never even spook's. Anyways yesterday we took a little longer on our ride then planned and had to ride the road section back in the dark. I have never actually rode in the dark but figured as long as we were seen it was fine so we got out glow stick's. a car comes from in front of us (were in the right lane their is a very wide shoulder their) and Jasper moved towards the car. I give him hell for it put him back on the shoulder we go a way's more and We can see a car coming behind us then headlight's in front as well, as soon as the headlight's get closer in front of us he puts his self almost in the middle of the road every time I try to get him to move to the right he goes farther towards the light's.I jumped off and ran us to the right side just in time as the car's in both lane's who did not even bother to slow, blow by us. So my question is could the light's be blinding him? or is it maybe a training problem? donhuston @ cox.net SanDiego, Calif
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