--- Karen Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What I said was: Horses buck (or act out in other ways) because > they are in pain, fearful or confused. I still say that. That's > why I feel so sorry for "schooling horses". Often no one bothers to > find out which it is before they sell them on down the line.
I totally agree with you Karen....we helped one of our farrier clients out with finding them a good calm well trained trail horse. She was sold with the caveat that the mare is a retired schooling horse and hates round pen work and arena work and lessons....she will buck if she is forced to do these things. Well everything has been fine until she started taking her lessons with her in a 70' round pen, doing Parelli stuff...well she has bucked the kid off twice and the trainer almost, but she just has a Very Good seat and she is 22 and Fit as a fiddle and stayed on. So what do they do....keep her in lessons to try to find out why she is bucking. Insane. Storme
