This message is from: Anneli Sundkvist [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Casey,
my first thought when I red your message was that it sounded like Tyr was
stung. Of course new environment may cause horses to react diffent from
what they usually do, but if the horse is stressed by the situation, there
are normally many signs of this. As I understand this situation, Tyr was
acting perfectly calm and normal until he suddenly took off.
Some years ago, I was out riding in the forest with a new boarder at the
barn (who wanted to have a look at the environment). Suddenly my mare
Lektra (who had walked the very same path thousands of times) just took
off, bucking like mad. I was totally taken by surprice and almost got
thrown and also almost rammed a tree before I gained control. My horse went
from beeing a sleep-walker into a rodeo horse just like that! Why? I found
out that she had put one of her back-hooves in the nest of a certain kind
of wasps that live in holes in the ground. She had got stung several times.
No wonder she took off.
I belive that these situations tell us that there are no 100% safe way to
ride a horse. What you can do is to minimize the risks by being aware of
the fact that horses are living animals that do get scared if they are
stung - just like we do.
Regards
Anneli
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Anneli Sundkvist
Dept. of Archaeology Ancient History
St. Eriks torg 5
75310 Uppsala
SWEDEN
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