Re: RE: Endurance and CTR

["Kirsten Price" <splash@dakotacom.net>]

Well, after all my near bragging about how good Splash has been (good enough
to consider a sort of practice trip).... 'Ol Splash musta heard me and
decided I needed to be brought back to reality <G>.  He dumped me pretty
hard Friday afternoon.  I'm fine, just bruises, scrapes and a stiff neck. He
and I have now gone through two days where he appears to be seriously
testing my authority.  I swear, someone MUST have switched horses on me when
I wasn't looking <G>.

YES I was wearing my helmet (as always) and would have gotten a rather nasty
smack otherwise.  I did have a mild headache for a while even with the
helmet. So, just a timely reminder that these teenagers do have their
moments!

Kirsten


----- Original Message -----
From: Lif Strand <fasterhorses@gilanet.com>
To: AERC <ridecamp@endurance.net>
Sent: Saturday, September 18, 1999 8:51 AM
Subject: RC: RE: Endurance and CTR


> Kirsten - the first ride we took Nasrif to we camped away from the
> central area, next to people with a gelding Nas liked.  We had Nas in a
> portable pen, and hung blankets on them to make them appear to be more
> of a barrier.  One of us stayed with him at all times.  During the first
> night (before the ride) I actually slept in his pen with him - it really
> calmed him down.  After the race he was calm on his own!  Nevertheless,
> during the dinner & awards, we tied him as well as had him in the pen,
> and one of us checked on him every few minutes.  It was a pain in the
> butt at first, but each ride we went to he got better.  It took lots of
> constant attention to him to get him to the point that he acted just
> like an old gelding but was worth it.  (By the way, this was a horse who
> had lots of show experience - somehow race camping must be a lot
> different).
>
> Even when Nas was an old hand at all this, we never could take him to
> any kind of a ride and expect him to be calm if we brought one of "his"
> mares there.  Lif
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