ridecamp@endurance.net: Re: sacking out horses

Re: sacking out horses

Niccolai Murphy (niccom@aerostructures.com)
Fri, 07 Feb 1997 18:19:21 -0800

We have two youngsters that will be reaching four years old in May.
We've had them since they were one, so no one had "gotten to them" much
before we did. We sacked them out in the round pen sense of the word. I
just came home from a three mile ride in the hills with the gelding (his
second ever trail ride in his life and he's never been ponied - we just
don't have a reliable enough horse for that).

Now the advantage to being sacked out is that he was spook free, relaxed
and well behaved the entire time.

The disavantage was that he was perhaps too relaxed to be afraid of
anything. On the way to the trails we have to ride along a well
travelled road. He had to investigate the trash cans, sniff each horse
poop on the road, check out mail boxes and stop to try and lick a semi
that was loading a bulldozer on a flat bed. One almost wishes for a good
old fashion shy once in a while. Seems unnatural.

Nicco

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