On 2/26/07, susan cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Once again, I say, if your horse is bolting - you are > WAAAAY too late with your one-rein stop. And before > you say it happens (the bolt) too fast to stop, that > is not true, especially if a one-rein stop has been > practised to the point of second nature - done without > thinking. You know by reading the horse if he/she is > thinking about bolting.
I think it's wonderful that you own horses like that. Not all horses give you much warning, some horses just blow up with very little to no warning. Some, like the B&W that ditched me last year, give *no* warning, are generally solid horses, but get a bee in their bonnets and bolt. FWIW, she bolted with her head down and her ears relaxed. I still don't understand *why* she did it. Runner was a bolter. I always knew when his were coming and I could normally diffuse the situation. Not always, but he had some pretty major issues. Sometimes they just don't give you warning. I don't zone out when I ride, no way, no how. I get on horses that I don't know, go out to peoples houses and ride and teach, and sometimes the horses just don't give us the pleasure of knowing that they're going to do something stupid. Steph -- "Brutality begins where skill ends." "Correctly understood, work at the lunge line is indispensable for rider and horse from the very beginning through the highest levels." Von Niendorff
