On 1/24/07, Virginia Tupper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > He's 5 and doesn't seem to be responsible yet. Does that mean he was > started wrong? > V > Maybe Virginia, but maybe like alllllll my horses it seems, he is just a huge goofball :) And besides, its my theory that a horse can maintain in a state of extreme fear and upsetness, but like a person in a car wreck or after a bad fall, they get to thinking about it later when every thing is fine, and act scared to death of everything. Like post traumatic stress disorder. Like my horse stonewall at the field trial. He was a terrified wreck. But I kept after him and he is trained enough to do what I say, then he launched me kicking at another horse galloping up on us ( a training gap I would say) but I got back on and persisted and he was even more terrified then, but obedient. He was wound up tightern a corkscrew tho and the next day when I got on him he launched me and I got seriously hurt. Soooooo. Was stonewall started wrong? I dont think so. If anything he was babied to DEATH. Does he have training gaps? Oh my YES, like the grand canyon. I had ridden him two years before I remembered I should teach him "whoa". I had never needed one before... Is he ill equipped emotionally to handle certain things? Apparently so! in a crowd of 300 horses racing over hill and dale like maniacs he is a little hyped up shall we say...Am I giving up on him? Like I told my husband "if I sold stonewall I would look for him every day I lived the rest of my entire life and every time i saw a horse that reminded me of him, was his color, had his loving comical personality, I would buy it. So best to just hang with stonewall and keep working on him". ANd I aint gonna put any mean bits on him either! Janice
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