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Originally Posted by breeze
"Any good horseman with the same ability to study the program, see the horses and their tendencies in the morning can do that job."
Exactly my point. A person cannot be plucked off the street nor would they let some kid who mucked stalls for a few weeks handle a horse in the gate.
It takes a HORSEMAN to know how to handle a fractious and/or revved up racehorse. Just knowing their proclivities is not enough as they must also know how to react and handle the horse. Many a non-track horseman would be lost with a racing thoroughbred in their hands. A non-horseman period could get someone killed.
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Or himself. Or a horse.
I have seen them flip. I have had a horse that got spooked by a kid filling a bicycle tire in the barn area. I was just walking him. He went up and if not for a little trick a guy had told me about ,he would have gone over. I hate to say this, But I probably saved the horse from serious injury by kicking him in the belly which cause him to come right back down. I hated to hurt the animal, but I had to think quick. The horse got over it.
