> Just curious, what is the goal with round penning? I don't know what the goals of traditional RP trainers are, but for me, the RP is a useful tool for getting a horse's focus, doing at-liberty work, asking a horse to move out for the first time under saddle--Shadow would walk and trot w/ the saddle on, but needed some coaxing to canter. When he did (in the RP, w/o me on him) boy did he have a few bucks to get out! Then he learned that he could canter w/ the saddle on. I don't do much lunge-line type stuff--I'd rather use the round pen. But I've also never used either one for just running the crap out of a horse, altho I have used it to exercise (trotting 10 mins either direction) an older horse on occasion.
Robyn S
