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- From: sconway@megatest.UUCP (Sharon Conway)
- Newsgroups: rec.equestrian
- Subject: Re: A Question
- Message-ID: <26448@megatest.UUCP>
- Date: 20 Nov 92 22:15:06 GMT
- Organization: Megatest Corporation, San Jose, Ca
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- What you have to remember is that he isn't listening to you when he
- anticipates and moves into a different gait before you ask. He definitely
- knows the pattern, and is listening for the announcer. One thing you may
- want to try is going to schooling shows, and doing the opposite of what
- the announcer says, and what other horses are doing. So when the announcer says
- "trot your horse"...you lope your horse. Or when everyone else is walking,
- you are trotting. Another way alot of horses are schooled is that they
- are brought to schooling shows and walked through the whole class, regardless
- of what the rest of the horses are doing. This teaches the horse to turn his
- concentration back to you, and to stop anticipating the pattern.
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- Putting cotton in their ears is a common way people try to stop this
- anticipation also, especially with horses that are shown alot and have
- become "ring wise". But, it is not solving the problem, just delaying
- more problems. It sounds like you enjoy showing your horse, and it would
- be too bad for you to start having these type of problems escalate now.
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- One more note, I don't know how legal it is to use cotton in your horses
- ears. I show QH, and I'm pretty sure its not legal. Just something to
- think about.
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- Sharon
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