spooking

["Carl & Christy Logan" <logan@etex.net>]

I also ride a spooker who has teleported & unseated me 3 times.   After
that, I decided to get serious about de-spooking this horse.   One of the
John Lyons methods that I have used that is working really well is that I
TOTALLY ignore her spooking or the object (when going down the trail).   I
do not let her go look at it;  sniff it;  - I just treat the object
matter-of-factly & I just keep driving her forward.   

She is definitely worse at the canter than at the trot & I have had 2 back
surgeries in the last year (due to an auto accident), so I think that she
now feels my apprehension.   But, I have found that if I let my breath out,
relax & continue riding, that she does much better.

Good Luck 


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