Re: steep hills and cantering.

Tina Hicks (hickst@puzzler.nichols.com)
Wed, 30 Oct 1996 08:02:43 -0600

Kimberly Price asked about going downhill -- what about the other side of
the hill - the up side? Horses seem to have a tendency to try to
lunge/gallop up a hill I have noticed tho that's not my preferred way to go
- is it easier on them to go up at speed? and maybe go slower going down?

I ask because I was reading some old TB's and in one of there there was
interview with Becky Hart after one of her <many> wins on Rio and she
commented on how she made good time on the massive hills by walking up and
trotting down where others were going up quickly and walking down.

I know that some of this depends on the horse - maybe Rio is a particulary
good downhill horse (heck, he seems to a particularly good everything
horse!)

whaddya'll think??

Tina Hicks, hickst@nichols.com
Nichols Research Corporation
Huntsville, AL
205/883-1140, x1584