Re: tailing

["Linda S. Flemmer" <bluwolf@earthlink.net>]

Blankenship, Ann wrote:
> 
> I think an easy way to start teaching a horse to tail, is to teach him
> to go on long lines first. <SNIP>
>  It's one thing to tail,
> it's another to tail and STEER at the same time.

We went a step farther & taught my last mare the draft horse driving
commands "Gee" and "Haw" to indicate direction while long lining (ground
driving).  She acted as though she had tailed all of her life until we
hit a STEEP hill for the first time.  She turned her head tolook at me
as though to say, "Get your OWN sorry self up the hill, thank you!"

Linda Flemmer
Blue Wolf Ranch
Bruceton Mills, WV