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I've never had a scrambling problem, but I know that my old horse used to ride with his hind legs spread for balance - very often I would open the trailer to find he had spread his legs, and the leg toward the center was a good foot over into the other stall.   A solid, floor length divider would interfere with that, and I can see a horse getting worried and scrambling if they hit a divider every time they tried to spread their legs to balance.

On Apr 21, 2009, at 7:25 AM, Kathleen wrote:

I would not advise extending a divider down lower. 

The only trailer I ever had any problems hauling horses in was a Miley two horse straight load with a solid divider all the way to the floor.  One of my horses developed a scrambling problem.  We modified the divider by taking off the wood that hung down from the center bar making it a bar divider with a large grate between the horses above the bar from the shoulder area forward.  We hauled the mare by herself to make sure she would not scramble and hurt a horse in the other stall and she was fine.  She never scrambled again; we assumed taking out the full divider allowed her to spread her back feet more and feel more balanced and secure.  We never had any problems with horses stepping on each other (we did use shipping boots however).