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Title:	Equine Notes Conference
Notice:	Topics List=4, Horses 4Sale/Wanted=150, Equip 4Sale/Wanted=151
Moderator:	MTADMS::COBURNIO

Created:	Tue Feb 11 1986
Last Modified:	Thu Jun 05 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	2080
Total number of notes:	22383

1539.0. "pumpkin fear" by XCUSME::FULTZ () Thu Oct 17 1991 13:52

    
    
    Well last weekend lady went into her first show... (fun show)
    She is a 4 year old Tennessee Walker.  
    
    But.. I had to tell this story..
    
    Lady and I went into Trail class and when I met the judge I told
    her that she would probably be picking me up off the ground before
    the class was over..
    
    Well first we had to put on this plastic bag - she didn't seem 
    to notice that red plastic thing her mother had to wear threw the
    entire trail class...
    
    Second we had to around a teepee - no problem there.. 
    
    Third we had to go over a bridge (wooden the ones that make 
    lots of noise when you step on them.. (no problem there..
    
    Then over a jump and then look at the canoe and back over the
    bridge (no problems there... )
    
    Then we had to pull a corn stock about 100 ft. - didn't seem notice.
    
    Then we took off the plastic thing and hung it back up.. Saw it didn't
    care that it was flapping around her head.. 
    
    Last thing we had to do was back up threw 12 pumpkins (Iam saying
    no sweat this horse backs with out thinking to hard about it.. )
    
    *****Wrong*****
    
    She saw those pumpkins and said no -way Iam I backing threw those
    So 4 people tried to make her back up - no way.. she wasn't moving
    in a backward direction for anything especially in between those 
    pumpkins.
    
    The judge still placed us 5th but, I am still shaking my head about
    the pumpkins..

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
1539.1		BOOVX2::MANDILE	Lynne a.k.a. HRH	`Thu Oct 17 1991 16:51`	2
	My horse probably would have tried to EAT them! (-8
1539.2		SSVAX::DALEY		`Fri Oct 18 1991 13:34`	9
	those pumpkins can sure do a number on their heads!!! Don't know why either. One year my daughter (Erin) was competing in the N.E. Hunter Trials held in Carlyle and she said Jimmy (horse) took all the jumps on the course, crossed the brook, etc., but when he rounded the bend in the trail and came to the one with pumpkins he stopped in his tracks. And to get him to proceed was alot of work as he was determined not to pass those things.
1539.3	They always surprise ya!	CSLALL::LCOBURN	Spare a horse,ride a cowboy	`Fri Oct 18 1991 13:46`	5
	They sound like a pretty good idea for a practice jump, though! I'll have to pick up a few this weekend. Funny the things you never think to get them used to, aren't those ALWAYS the things you come across under situations when you're being judged?? :-)
1539.4	Pumpkin trouble? Me too!	HYEND::PMTEMP		`Mon Nov 18 1991 14:19`	24
	A similar thing happened to me last year at a hunter pace in the Carlisle State Forest. We were at the Halloween hunter pace and there were all kinds of people in costume on horses. My 6 year old Appendix QH mare didn't even notice. She's very BRAVE in the country and LOVES to go hunter pacing. We started off no problem. Over walls, telephone pole jumps, coops, BIG drop jumps, over bridges, through a raging stream (where I would have expected her to deposit me - she doesn't even like puddles), over/through a pen jump, by the cows in a field, etc. Not a big deal. The last fence was right near the finish line and where the trailers were parked. We were almost home so I was expecting no problems at all - especially since the last fence was about 18" high. It was three hay bales on their sides in between two natural looking standards with some corn stalks and pumpkins on the ground in front. After jumping the HIGH side of everything else I couldn't believe her reaction to this LITTLE jump. She absolutely refused to jump over the pumpkins. She was sure they would bite her belly on the way over. It was really comical and I couldn't help laughing at her. After finally walking over the jump, I noticed that almost every other team had at least one horse that wouldn't jump the pumpkin jump. They sure are strange animals, but we still love them!