>From Rachel:

>>>> Problem: my horse, Banjo, is high strung, spooks easily,

>>Rachel, what does he eat?

He eats orchard grass/timothy hay, and a quart of Triumph sweet feed in the 
evenings.

I think he is just inbred (he's a purebred showhorse)-his skin is very 
sensitive and I have to be VEEERRRY careful not to cue him even a fraction 
too hard or he'll overreact. He would much rather be driven or ridden 
bareback, and seldom spooks then, so I plan to buy one of those CorrecTor 
pads, and have been avoiding using the saddle until I do. But still, he is 
just way too nervous for my taste. If I spent the time I have spent getting 
Banjo to accept new things, I could have trained several herds of mustangs.

While we were at the horse show yesterday I noticed that the showhorses kept 
spooking when they passed a trash can near the railing.

Rachel from E. KY

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