On Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 04:19:25PM -0400, Karen Thomas wrote: > >>> I remember that, many years ago, we had people on the list who laughed > at other horse owners when their horses worried about the sound. That's > not the way to be; It is rude and inconsiderate. > > If you're talking about the cases I remember, the rude Icelandic riders > simply would not stop tolting (fast) and passed the other riders at a very > fast speed, maybe even galloping. That was indeed rude, a breech of common > trail etiquette. Mostly, I've heard of two different scenarios of horses > getting spooked by gaited horses. The first is like the one you mentioned - > where the gaited horse riders are simply rude, or will insist that they > can't walk on their horses, or second, very nervous riders of non-gaited > horses who are looking for any reason to go into a panic. The first > scenario is easy to overcome - our horses sound just like any other horses > when they walk! And second - not much we can do about that, except not give > nervous riders reason to panic over rude gaited riders.
this was in (actually at the end of) a parade, not on the trail. as soon as we caught up with the other group of riders, of course we walked. the person on the frightened horse seemed more amused than anything, when he turned around and saw tiny me on fuzzy little stjarni. (at no point was he out of control of his horse, thank goodness.) --vicka
