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Hi Mary, sorry today is a wipe out and so is tomorrow. How about Friday?
since we both have the same ferrier we are correcting the same way. Yes
your experiences with no tripping when they are paying attention is i think
a sound one. That is why I feel having them on the bit also means they are
paying attention. Glad people are "coming out of the closet" on this issue.
It was very frightening to see Howdie go down with a 10 year old at the
canter. He just was asleep and inattentive. She was alright, thank God,
but i then never let another child on him. Jean >This message is from:
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>> Hello Lindsay and glad to see you and hear about your crew. Yes it is
>> certainly an interesting and helpful group here. I have two
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>> pose to the group. Can a choppy trot be turned into a comfortable
>one? Do
>> all Fjords have a tendency to trip or did I just get the only two?
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>As to the tripping problem: It seems to me that there are two kinds
>of Fjords - the trippers and the non-trippers. We have had both,
>although it seems more of them trip than do not. Possibly it is an
>attention/asleep at the switch problem, as I have not had one trip
>when doing something even mildly exciting, such as at a show or in a
>parade. Fred's horse, who has gone down on several occasions, never
>tripped once the whole time we were in Libby - not in a class, not on
>the trail, not in the parade. But he nearly fell on his face coming
>out of the trailer when we got home, and often trips over his toes
>during arena work or on a boring trail. We keep his toes really short
>with a slightly longer heel so he "breaks" at the right time. Seems
>he tends to "break" too late and his toe gets stuck. (I think that's
>right, possibly its the opposite. Anyway the trim job works.)
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>Incidentally, when I was driving my Fjords I don't recall that they
>ever tripped - not even Line, who is a real klutz - but maybe it's
>just less noticeable when you aren't on them.
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>Mary
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>Mary Thurman
>Raintree Farms
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