>... According to what I heard some horses bolted out
>of an electric fence and ran off into some barbed wire. One horse
>(belonging to the Kanavy's?) broke its leg in a cattleguard and had to
>be destroyed....
>I understand this has raised the question again as to whether electric
>fences should be banned at endurance ride camps.
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>Karen Steenhof
>Boise, Idaho
Sounds pretty awful, but horses get loose. Should we ban halters
because some horses break them? Or require tow ropes to tie them with so
they can't break those? (Don't take this as an attack--it isn't.)
--C.M.Newell
"The expression in a horse's eye is like a blessing on a good man's house."
--Sayied iben-el Rabil, quoting the Prophet