Re: training question/tailing

["GESA BRINKS" <gesaeqfx@pe.net>]

Boy can some of us relate to your story.  Me especially.   I was on the
Halloween Horror ride with my appy mare a few years back.  There was a
steepish , longish climb coming up so I hopped off and grabbed her tail and
the reins in my left hand  and started a nice walk up the hill.   A rider
trotted by us .   Well, my mare Annee decided that we were going way too
slow.  She promptly broke into a nice long trot to catch up with the horse
that had just passed her.  I grabbed her tail with both hands and hung on
for dear life.  The snap on my reins had gotten tangled in her tail and I
couldnt get her to slow down let alone stop.   Well we finally caught up
with the other rider.... and blew right on past her.   By the time we
reached the top of the climb I had gotten her reins out of her tail hairs
and hauled her to a stop.  The rider caught me about a minute later and
commented on how she admired my physical condition.  She just couldnt
believe how I had run up that  section of trail.  I just smiled and gasped
thanks.   I wondered how she could have missed my right lung laying on the
trail and my brains leaking from my ears and nose.  Must  of been a
newbie!!!:))))))  I could hardley get back into the saddle.   No more
tailing for me.  My critters get paid to haul my butt up the trail.  I will
lead down no problem.  But I
DON'T DO UP HILLS.                gesa n clovis
-----Original Message-----
From: Dbeverly4@aol.com <Dbeverly4@aol.com>
To: rides2far@juno.com <rides2far@juno.com>
Cc: ridecamp@endurance.net <ridecamp@endurance.net>
Date: Wednesday, October 13, 1999 4:46 PM
Subject: RC: training question/tailing


>In a message dated 10/13/99 3:35:32 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
>rides2far@juno.com writes:
>
><< The accepted commands in this part of
> the country are GEE!  and HAW!...I believe these are descended from the
> exclamations..."JES__" and "WHOA!" >>
>
>In my experience tailing just naturally involves quite a bit of cussing,
>sweating and sometimes crying (please, please stop....pant, pant, gasp).
>Harca can motor up a hill so fast that I have to jog up behind him (he will
>not be rated at the walk if I'm hanging on to his tail).  I was tailing
alone
>up the last canyon into Michigan Bluff (Tevis trail) and Harca KNEW there
was
>food just up the hill.  I had hooked the rein to the halter, optimistically
>run it through the stirrup and started tailing.  Yeehaw doesn't even begin
to
>cover it (I had thought he was getting tired -- faker!!!).  He sprinted up
>that last canyon and with nobody to stop him for quite a ways, I was
jogging,
>eating dust, swearing, crying and by the end, ready to throw up.  Finally,
we
>ran into some riders who were going at a more reasonable pace and since
even
>Harca couldn't figure out how to pass on that trail, we settled in behind
and
>walked in.  I don't think I've ever been happier to see the back end of a
>horse than at that particular moment.  So, beware when you tail of the
speed
>your horse is capable of and the speed YOU are capable of (sometimes
they're
>not very compatible :)
>
>Sylvia & Harca (hehe, I dare you to tail)
>
>
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