--- In IceHorses@yahoogroups.com, "Janice McDonald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
She was > perfectly calm the old man said. She was standing facing the open > barn, and through the doorway could see her paddock out back where the > others were being fed. The old man thinks it happened because she > wanted to go be fed. But he said she was as calm and passive as could > be, and that after she flipped and landed on his son, she just as > casually and calmly as you please walked thru the barn and out back to > the paddock while he was running to call 9-1-1. I would want to see exactly what happened. Sometimes things happen pretty fast and it's hard for the people involved to really realize what they are doing. > > also, they generally start a horse in too harsh a bit. > This is my first thought, I wonder if she did something to let them know she wanted out of there and maybe they pulled on her mouth. It's hard to believe a horse normally flips over on someone without something triggering it. I was told about a horse I knew, I had been boarding where he was kept for a while, he was really calm and easy going, then was put into "training", it was too much apparently, he began rearing and flipping over, finally he did it and fell down and broke his own neck, that is pretty sad. I wouldn't guess that there would be a quick fix once a person has gotten a horse to start doing this, after that it will probably take twice as much time to undo it, it's much better if we give our horses time (each one needs a different amount of time), which means to me not using harsh bits or other contraptions, and this never happens to begin with. Kim
