Re: Teeth and tails

["teddy" <teddy@viper.runningbear.com>]

            >Teddy (only half-kidding)  Did I ever tell anyone about my first time tailing? 
            >1.) DON'T do it ON THE WAY HOME... 
            >2.) DON'T grab for the stirrup strap on an english saddle. 
            >3.) DON'T do it AT ALL, unless you are PREPARED to walk a LONG way if necessary...

            I was once flagging some trail in Bankhead Forest by myself, with a
            fairly new horse.  I decided it was time to teach him to tail.  Well,
            he went from a walk to a trot to a canter, and once he reached the
            speed where it was either let go or get dragged on my face, I let go.
            I contemplated a long walk as I watched him canter around the next
            bend in the trail.  Then I walked around the bend and there he was,
            looking back with an expression of "Well, what happened to you?" on
            his face.

            Lesson learned.

            -- 

            Joe Long
            jlong@mti.net

Mine did that another time on a "lollipop" trail...I opted to follow, hoping he'd stop...Well, he turned around and headed right back to me.  I though, Great, the horse (stallion) I raised from a baby loves me and trust me and wants me for company..won't leave me here...

Ha-ha!!!!  He said and he zigged around me and headed home (me worrying..new saddle, heart monitor and a pasture of mares on the way home). 

45 minutes and 4 miles later, (after trudging up and down hills, through mud, rocks and streams) there he was grazing in an alfalfa field, 1/2 mile before he would have reached the mares. Boy did I learn a lesson!!!!! (and was lucky to boot)

teddy