kicking

[Pete Occhialini <poko@jps.net>]

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Rancho Occhialini
"Where the fat guy lumbers"

Short of actually running into a horse at speed and surprising it, there
is no reason for an endurance horse to be kicking out because he is
bumped.  We frequently ride in groups, and sudden stops have had 3 or 4
of us running into each other. (probably riding too close, but that's
another story) Our horses are accepting of this and if not, they
shouldn't be doing rides with up to 60 or 70 other horses on single
track trail or any other trail for that matter.  It's a dangerous vice
and I wish Katja had seen the number of the rider, because apparently
his horse kicked at someone else at the same ride.  At the very least,
this rider should have had a red ribbon on the tail.  By the way, Katja
rode with us on the ARR and her horse was in the front, the middle and
the back, and was very well behaved himself.

Karin O.