Need to 'medicate'??

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[QUOTE=devvie;7967500]
Interesting thread. Personally, I’m quite content with my “pony club” mentality, and have never felt the need to use Ace or any other calmer. Yes, I’ve hunted. There are a lot of great horsepeople out there (I don’t count myself among that group) who consider it a shortcut. But hey, it’s a free world.[/QUOTE]

Former Pony Club kid here who fox hunted who is now a Grandmother that fox hunts. There is a difference between acing a horse to hunt that is showing you it is unsuitable to hunt (round peg, square hole) verses giving a little ace to turn the horse’s volumn down for the first 30 minutes of a hunt.

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[QUOTE=gumtree;7968141]
I have found horses will jump what is asked early on but it becomes clear they are being “over faced” as time goes on and or just not comfortable with “everything” that is going on in the hunt field. It’s not because they are not fit. Nervousness/anxiety “burns” far more energy than a long run. With horses and people[/QUOTE]

Exactly! Sometimes you just to step back and let your horse tell you its finished for the day.