Re: Re: Narrow Trails and Young Horses

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

OOOOh Sylvia,  I know exactly where you are coming from.  Clovis kept trying
to cut trail on Tevis (been hard to break her of this) on the switch backs.
That was a long ways down too.  I hate that.  It is so scarey to have one of
their feet dangle out into nothingness.  Hope to see ya on some of the 50's
next year.    Are ya going to do Go for the Gold in Dec.?            gesa n
clovis
-----Original Message-----
From: Dbeverly4@aol.com <Dbeverly4@aol.com>
To: sunibey@sisqtel.net <sunibey@sisqtel.net>
Cc: ridecamp@endurance.net <ridecamp@endurance.net>
Date: Tuesday, November 09, 1999 4:11 PM
Subject: RC: Re: Narrow Trails and Young Horses


>In a message dated 11/9/99 10:29:13 AM Pacific Standard Time,
>sunibey@sisqtel.net writes:
>
><<  I
> will overcome my secret fear that he could be at the top of a 2' wide
twisty
> mountain trail, look down several hundred feet to little horses racing
below
> and decide to take the short (read airborne) way down. >>
>
>That is exactly what happened to Star (normally verrrrry laid back horse)
on
>his second ride (Swanton NATRC).  We were on some switchbacks and there
were
>horses above AND below us -- too much for his baby brain.  He started
>squirrelling around sideways and up and down.  When one of his back feet
>actually left the trail I thought it was all over and kicked my feet out of
>the stirrups (I wasn't going down with the ship).  It kind of acted like a
>slap in his face and he stopped being quite so radical and decided to walk
>the rest of the way down.  It didn't hurt that we caught up with a really
>nice, experienced mare who we ended up following for the rest of the day
(she
>saved our butts!).  Riding a green horse with a more experienced (calmer)
>horse is definitely a plus if you can arrange it.  Also, probably start out
>on a ride that isn't quite as challenging as the Santa Cruz mountains!
>
>Sylvia & Star (who has most of this trail horse stuff figured out -- on to
>50's in 2000!)
>
>
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