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OK, here goes....
The first time my little horse Courage saw an Elephant Seal bull, all 19 
feet long and 7-8 tons of him, on the sand at Ano Nuevo State Reserve on the 
CA coast, Courage thought "no big deal, it's a log."  He wasn't a spooky 
horse at all.  Then suddenly, the log reared up, dropped his long nose into 
his throat, and exhaled pulsing bursts of air into the sounding chamber of 
his throat.  This is typical male Elephant Seal communication technique. 
The "log" sounded like the horn of a diesel semi and poor Courage jumped and 
asked, "WHAT was THAT?!!"  Ever after, he spooked at large things in strange 
places, notably a large rock in High Rock Canyon on the Applegate-Lassen 
Trail 5-day ride.

Barbara

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lif Strand" <lif.strand@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "ll cole" <bluemoonfarm90@xxxxxxxxxxx>; <tondi313@xxxxxxx>; 
<alexis_mills@xxxxxxxxxxxx>; <ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, September 01, 2009 8:27 PM
Subject: RE: [RC] need advice about spooking/bolting


> At 09:22 PM 9/1/2009, ll cole wrote:
> > What about all those horse eating rocks??? I know they're there, my 
> > 'Snort' (the Black Horse) tells me so!!!
>
> Those of us who used to do horse patrol at Ano Nuevo in CA can tell you 
> that the horse is always right when it comes to horse-eating rocks. 
> Barbara McCrary - tell the story!
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