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- From: linda@tellabs.com (Linda Jensen)
- Subject: Re: Emergency Dismount (was: What to do about fear)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.183607.26676@tellab5.tellabs.com>
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- References: <C15vs8.3yw@watserv2.uwaterloo.ca> <DOCONNOR.93Jan26025603@potato.sedona.intel.com>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 18:36:07 GMT
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- In article <DOCONNOR.93Jan26025603@potato.sedona.intel.com>, doconnor@sedona.intel.com (Dennis O'Connor) writes:
- >
- > wcollins@netcom.com (Walter J. Collins) writes:
- > ] I was taught that one should always try to keep a hold of the reins
- > ] even if you decide to bail out or fall off......
- >
- > Personal experience : my wife got her hands tangled in the reins
- > during an unplanned dismount once, and the shock when the horse
- > hit the end of the reins tore some tendons in her back. Tendon
- > injuries never mend back to the strength of the original, and
- > my wife has had chronic back problems ever since that accident.
- >
- > So my own opinion is : drop the reins.
- > --
-
- I second this. I got dumped when a trio of deer made a
- surprise appearance. My horse just scooted out from under
- me, I fell off, held on to the reins, pulling the horse
- towards me. I'll never forget lying there looking at the
- horse hoof on my chest. I still remember the pattern of
- shoe nails. *brrr*. The only thing I could say for about
- 5 minutes was "Did you see that? He stepped on me!".
- Fortunately, the horse didn't put any weight on that foot.
-
- I figure if you're going to go off of a horse, best to be
- as free from it as possible.
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