[tuffydoodle]

This really sounds like an accident to me. Anyone that's been riding for a few years has had a horse get away from them.

[blogbat]

"This really sounds like an accident to me. Anyone that's been riding for a few years has had a horse get away from them."

Certainly, and I stipulate that if the horse had accidentally gotten loose from where he was tied, such would be an exception to my assertion. However the story sounds more as if the horse was deliberately made to run with his lead rope still attached to the halter, which in any book of common sense is very bad form.

(As for the comment made earlier in this thread about ground-tying, I should say that it would probably be a good idea for the lead rope to not be so long it can get under foot or that there is some sort of easy-breakaway mechanism in the halter.) :)

[N. Beaujon]

This really sounds like an accident to me. Anyone that's been riding for a few years has had a horse get away from them.

You make a good point but the story doesn't seem to indicate the horse got away. Sounds to me more like a careless person leading the horse and letting the rope drag. (This is one of my pet peeves by the way because I see it so often. People hold the rope with one hand, let the rest drag. They do not foresee or don't know what will happen if the horse steps on that rope.)