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Posted on 02/24/2006 9:12:25 AM PST by HairOfTheDog
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Yeah, the judge knew this horse was a problem. The judge told us about it at the award meeting, she said the horse was dangerous and was going kill someone if the rider didin't get control. The JUDGE told her to beat the horse everytime it reared. IMO, this horse should have been dismissed....competition is not the place to train. That's been my main problem with the whole affair from the start. The judges and ride officials all knew that there were 3 very unruly horses in the group. All three got to stay and all three placed.
I've had the incident with the passing thing happen a lot too, and it is irritating, to ask some one to pass and they take along time about letting you, when there is plenty of places to pull over. I think it's the people who know there horse is going to get up in the bridle when a horse passes them. They want to wait till they don't have to pull over and stop to let the pass take place. They want to do it where the trail is wide enough that they don't have to pull over and stop.
But yes I do think that poster was just showing off:)
Becky
The P&R's can present problems too for those horses that don't like a buddy horse to leave. If a rider pulls in next to you within a 3-5 minute window of when you pulled in you are suppose to wait till their P&R's are done. I don't have a problem with that. BUT:), I had one lady ask me to stay and I had a 9 minute wait. She was asking rather pathatically, in a begging manner, and with the workers around it kind of put me on the spot. I waited, but I didn't like it.
I asked Celia about it and she said I didn't have too, and no one would have thought anything about it. Next time I won't.
Becky
We had a probelm with sparrows nesting on our porch so we put up nest boxes in the yard but they preferred the porch. I took two of my dogs stuffed toys and put them where they try to nest and that solved that problem! They are so funny, every year they come back and try again but see the doggie smelling stuffed toys stuffed in there and they squak and flap around then fly off. You can tell they are pissed. Whenever we have company over they always ask why I have stuffed toys on my porch supports and I tell them those are my scarecrows!
At obstacles if there is a line, I try to stay back as much as possible from the one in front of me, but close enough that the people behind don't start to gripe about move the line up:)
At the P&R's you have to stand as they put you. Most times space is limited, so the horses have to be lined up side by side facing the same direction with enough room between horses that the workers can get in and take the readings.
Becky
Now THAT would really burn my @$$!!! And he// yes it was giving her an advantage, as evidenced by her placement! That ain't right!
~>:-[
Well, there's that... LOL!
Some horses at P&R's are distracted by the things going on around them, p eople walking past, horses coming in at one end and horse leaving at the other. They will do alot of looking around and sniffing the air. If it happens when their rates are being taken it can really up the counts, and you only get one shot at the readings. Several times I've had a horse that just as the worker was taking their readings would see something off somewhere and go to sniffing the air....it can be very frustrating. Belle finally learned, and Harley so far has been great about coming in, resting a back foot, dropping thier heads and resting. I've found the best thing to do is get them standing where/how they are suppose to, loosen the cinch a bit, sponge them off a little, give them a pat, then leave them alone. After about the first few minutes, I try not to touch them, just let them rest.
Some of the riders completly untack, and carry all kinds of thing from dustpans to cardboard to fan their horse with....feed them all kinds of things from carrots to poweder electrolyes,,,drives me nuts to stand by someone who is waving a dustpan up and down in thier horses face:). I'd like to know how much that really helps.
Becky
LOL...You know is all I've done is gripe about things that happened there, but I have to say, I had a great time, it was a fun ride, and all in all I think my horse was judged and scored fairly. There was nothing on my score cards that I didn't agree with.
But there did seem to be a comedy of errors take place at this ride, that I've never seen before.
Becky
I'll have to remember that tip:), but I sure like my little barn swallows, I don't want to scare them off, but the sparrows were even messier then the swallows.
Becky
At the time it happened I didn't even think about it. It wasn't till afterwards and all this stuff came to light that I remembered about that, and begin to think, "Hey, that wasn't fair:)". I get so focused on what I"M doing, that I don't notice alot of things thru out the ride, except of course the guy slugging his horse, but you would have had to be blind not to notice that.
Becky
Yeah, the judges had Bat $hit for brains! ;o)
ROFLOL,,, well that IS one way to describe it:)
Becky
Well, I gotta confess, that was Beaker's term. She posted it over the weekend in reference to some horse's behavior and I thought it was hysterical, but it fits the bill here.
Perfectly:)
Becky
Gonna try to post the link to your video...
http://www1.snapfish.com/slideshow/AlbumID=43984551/PictureID=1299016627/a=51908049_51908049/t_=51908049
They don't like the smell of those slobbery dog toys!
That worked, Thanks Frog.
I've always used ear bonnets in the summertime when the flies are bad. I've never known a horse to be bothered by them.
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