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Hi List ! Its late again.....but wanted to respond to the poster who had
the problem of their Fjords rubbing on each others bridles, and was
considering open bridle to drive........
If you decide to switch to open cheek bridles, PLEASE start your horses
back to basics before hitching them for the first time without blinkers.
Often, even a very broke horse will panic and bolt or worse, after catching a
view of the cart moving behind them. Its also very important to get these
guys to QUIT their bad habbit of rubbing....and if its not blinkers, it can
also be bridles, yokes, itchy ears ect. I have personally seen several wrecks
as a result of rubbing, both with ridden horses and driven ones. Its good to
get your whip with a lash long enough to reach your horses shoulders, and use
it to disapline them for rubbing, at first attempt. If they hook their bits
together, and run off....picture it. Same with a horse who has been allowed
to rub their bridle on their harness....catching it back by the saddle part,
runaway. Whoa does not just mean feet....also means all unnessessary
movement, unless asked for by driver. Please see CD-List archives for more
info on this......also, saw this on my Draft Horse list today....good timing.
Good-Luck with it....much easier to break a bad habit now then dealing with
re-training a horse whos suffered a bad wreck though.
Lisa Pedersen Pedersens Fjords
Cedar City, Utah where its still remarkably sunny, warm and clear during
the day, cold at night. Heaven. : )
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( Quoted from Connamerapony on the Draft Horst list )
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 12:29:46 EST
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Halters under bridles
In a message dated 11/10/99 1:50:36 PM Pacific Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
<< Imagine a horse did get unbridled and you
were seated on the driver's seat and there were competent horsepeople
nearby who could help... would you rather they grab the horse by the
halter, or try to find a leadrope to throw over his neck? >>
This happened in old Sacramento a few months ago. The horse rubbed the
bridle off, no halter, and then took off running. With the driver on the
box. And ran for about 10 minutes before finally crashing and tearing the
carriage to pieces. Horse and driver were injured(also boyfriend who tried
to dive in front of horse and get it to stop-it didn't, and ran him over),
but luckily not seriously. Driver tried to sue city for having bolts that
stuck out slightly from the hitching post. Never mind that driver allowed
horse to rub his head, knowing the bolts were there.
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