conversely--- you can also have a horse semi-accustomed to being whipped. At the big lick walking horse show I went in the trainer area and they brought out a big beautiful black stud horse in the big padded shoes and the "trainer" directed a stable boy to "walk him out" and when he took about ten steps the trainer took a whip and cracked it as hard as he could across the horses hocks. I asked the man next to me WHY and he shrugged and said "to get him up under hisself better". Later after I got over the horror of the whole place a little it ocurred to me--- if I EVER cracked any horse of mine in the hocks with a whip he would be in canada by now and still galloping. so it says a lot that a horse will tolerate it with just a terrified jump the way that horse did and not bolt for the hills like mine would, what it says is that a horse has grown accustomed to horror. janice -- yipie tie yie yo
