Fred
Well-Known Member
Now I realize everyone has a different take on harnessing but the one thing that totally ticks me off is anyone who hooks a horse while tied to a trailer with NO BRIDLE ON!!!!!!!!!!!!! While I was waiting for a class I had my guy tied to the trailer. The girls next to us proceeded to put on the saddle and breastplate and hook their horses to the carts while tied to the trailer. When they went to hook a horse close to mine which is a stallion [by the way] I told them quite sharply not near my horse and it is NOT a safe practice. It went in one ear and out the other. They didn't hook near my horse. {I would have flamebroiled them}. The thing is though that the person who is teaching them is teaching them to do this. Scary huh? Not only that they didn't have their harnesses on correctly [no bit guards and martingales over the breastplate] and one idiot pulled in way too close to me in the lineup in the ring. The judge was NOT impressed with her and asked if I wished to circle my horse to get further over from her which I did. {Kid was still oblivious}. Kids learn by example and it really worries me to have kids out there driving like this!!!!!