Did a horse die at Clinton Anderson's ranch?

I agree that most NH is BS. While I respect the likes of Buck, and would actually audit a clinic if he ever came down here, it isn’t useful to me personally because I do not desire a trained vaquero horse.

My horse will be limited to my own riding abilities and tendencies as well as the resources I have where I live. If I lived in Montana, it might be different, but I don’t. I live in the hangy down state near a very large horse community with plenty of resources (NO, I am NOT talking about Parelli, LOL!). There are two local trainers that I have used in the past, who are excellent riders and use gentle techniques to train. It’s fun to watch other methods, but when it’s just me and the horse, I have to follow my own instincts, which say, very clearly, that the “magical” round pen has it’s limits. I follow the basic good rules of common sense, which include:

1). Don’t overwork your horse.
2). Never lose your temper.
3). Only physically correct a horse for dangerous behavior (biting, striking, kicking).
4). When physically correcting a horse, the first smack is training, the second is revenge.
5). Always end on a positive note.
6). And, what I learned so far from Gus, I decide when the training is done, rather than letting him decide.

Wow. I have only seen him on TV a few times and that was years ago when he wasn’t so beefy.

:lol::lol::lol::lol: This is so signature-worthy!

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:lol::lol::lol::lol: This is so signature-worthy![/QUOTE]

I thought the same thing!

Recently I saw a photo of an Olympian handling an Olympic horse on facebook (sorry, I’m terrible with names, but remember the horse and rider when I see them). This is a giant chestnut at and the female rider looks maybe 110 pounds and he’s showing his personality, very excited - awesome horse and rider to see even in a snapshot. The responses by the NH crowd were SO funny, “This horse needs Parelli!”, and “He’s disrespectful!”, and, “That horse needs some round pen work!”…these people really and truly believe they are in some elite club and that they have all of the answers and the rest of the world is doing it wrong. It’s just like religion.

CA wouldn’t know what to do with an athletic horse with a dynamic personality.

Posts like Martha Drum’s last one make it worthwhile logging on to COTH.

LOL…this is what is wrong with NH (I saw this posted on CL today…poor soul is “lost without equipment”…:
http://flint.craigslist.org/grq/3711602945.html

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But I don’t want to sit helmetless on my horse while he lies on the ground kicking a ball around without a bridle while Leatherface does an interpretive dance with his chainsaw around us. I want to foxhunt.

rant over off to eat raw cookie dough[/QUOTE]

Dmn you, dmn you, I say!! I just snorked coffee, with a mouthful of chocolate covered donut, onto my keyboard! :slight_smile: HA!!

Good Lord, is that not the truth or what??

I’m wondering if CA is taking over the Pep’s spot in snort-worthy horse training.

The other night, as I posted before, I watched Chis Cox teaching a class. While he has softened his people skills, the things he did with his little mare perplexed me. In my book, there isn’t any reason for it other than it looks good to the uninitiated. I’m thinking this whole NH thing is going off the rails.

Martha, that’s one of the best common sense horsemanship post I’ve seen.
I’ve noticed that there are a lot of people who have seriously awesome horsemanship skills, who are or have been involved in foxhunting.

Microbovine…

While I respect the likes of Buck, and would actually audit a clinic if he ever came down here, it isn’t useful to me personally because I do not desire a trained vaquero horse.

It isn’t about what style you ride. It’s about the horsemanship. Buck has a very close relationship with Meredith Taylor, and is on first-name terms with George Morris. Buck also has a longtime student named Betty Staley who is a real-deal dressage rider.

If you put that on a t-shirt or a poster (or just about anything), I’ll buy one. You could remove the last sentence to appeal to a wider audience, but this made me laugh out loud and nod and grin. That’s it exactly for me. :slight_smile:

I Heart you, Martha Drum. I really, really Heart you.
Sheilah

Still whipping this dead horse???:no:

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Still whipping this dead horse???:no:[/QUOTE]

Still leading a ‘strange’ horse and calling it special???

TBH I expected 7 to show up about 12 pages ago.

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Still leading a ‘strange’ horse and calling it special???[/QUOTE]No, have no clue what you are babbling about… but aren’t you special.:lol:

Wait, I thought 7 was the resident Parelli cheerleader/Voodoo head-priest? Or does he cover all the big-name “NH”-type magic-stick-shaker trainers?

Here we go!! Round 2. Ding, ding!

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CA wouldn’t know what to do with an athletic horse with a dynamic personality.[/QUOTE]

Yeah he would… he would round pen it, round pen it, round pen it, back it up endlessly, fling his lead rope at it, stomp all over it’s back, wave a chainsaw in it’s face and basically work it until it had no dynamic personality and was too exhausted to be athletic.

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If you put that on a t-shirt or a poster (or just about anything), I’ll buy one. You could remove the last sentence to appeal to a wider audience, but this made me laugh out loud and nod and grin. That’s it exactly for me. :)[/QUOTE]

I definitely want this t-shirt and then I want to wear it to the next NH clinic that comes to town, where in all other ways I will audit respectfully. Mostly.