> In Lee's book, she talks about leading and how you have to give the > horse room for his head to nod.....and a light went on. We've been > using a heavier lead line with a heavy brass clip and I think it's > been annoying Dagur. It's flopping too much. So it's back to the > drawing board for a lead line.
Good observation, Wanda! I think that the horses may tend to do some type of gait on a tight or heavy lead line, that they may not do on a loose lead line. I used to teach infant swimming about twenty years ago, and it was hard for some of the moms to let the babies go when they were under water, but it was more advantageous to do so. If the moms hung on, the baby had to deal with her affect on his body as well as trying to maintain himself. If he was free to do what was natural, the baby would do really well. Judy http://icehorses.net http://clickryder.com
