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Re, kicking, yes, I didn't get the right words. When I say 'all young horses kick' i mean we position ourselves like they could. I didn't mean to say it is guaranteed that every single youngster will have decked someone by the time they hit their fourth birthday, just that we position ourselves as if they will.
But you're right, I was taught to always think with any horse, it could very well do so, I just assume it.
It gets to be kind of automatic after years...especially with the horses I have worked with.
I'm not even so sure a lot of experience is always full guarantee. No, I'm not saying 'all accidents', but - some of the long time pro's I know, they get very busy, and they get sloppy, and they just are in a hurry and they cut corners. They do stuff they know they shouldn't, but they think that it will be alright just this one time. A lot of them get hurt - bad!
Over the years I've seen a lot of accidents, all happened while doing things we can read in a very basic book, that is says, 'Don't ever....'.
Some of them are a little funny. We boarded with a trainer gal who every time she longed her two horses, they got loose. Finally she left, and later we saw a big story in the paper, that one of her horses had escaped and disappeared in the woods in a big luxury golf course. They couldn't find the horse for - ten days? Something like that!
And of course there is the very sad accident Courtney King-Dye had in spring, so that now, many of the topriders are wearing helmets at competitions, when they didn't before.
But as my one friend says, there are two kinds of people, those who spill soup and those the soup gets spilled onto.
With my luck, I wouldn't be the one that got kicked by the two year old loose in the aisle, there would be some sort of complicated lengthy chain reaction that resulted, and I'd wind up in the bottom of the water cistern, say, with my horse sitting ontop of me. But that's why I'd be hot on the heels of the OP who said she was leaving!
But you're right, I was taught to always think with any horse, it could very well do so, I just assume it.
It gets to be kind of automatic after years...especially with the horses I have worked with.
I'm not even so sure a lot of experience is always full guarantee. No, I'm not saying 'all accidents', but - some of the long time pro's I know, they get very busy, and they get sloppy, and they just are in a hurry and they cut corners. They do stuff they know they shouldn't, but they think that it will be alright just this one time. A lot of them get hurt - bad!
Over the years I've seen a lot of accidents, all happened while doing things we can read in a very basic book, that is says, 'Don't ever....'.
Some of them are a little funny. We boarded with a trainer gal who every time she longed her two horses, they got loose. Finally she left, and later we saw a big story in the paper, that one of her horses had escaped and disappeared in the woods in a big luxury golf course. They couldn't find the horse for - ten days? Something like that!
And of course there is the very sad accident Courtney King-Dye had in spring, so that now, many of the topriders are wearing helmets at competitions, when they didn't before.
But as my one friend says, there are two kinds of people, those who spill soup and those the soup gets spilled onto.
With my luck, I wouldn't be the one that got kicked by the two year old loose in the aisle, there would be some sort of complicated lengthy chain reaction that resulted, and I'd wind up in the bottom of the water cistern, say, with my horse sitting ontop of me. But that's why I'd be hot on the heels of the OP who said she was leaving!
