> Hi Jean,  Don't be too hard on yourself, there are probably
 > many carting
 > fanciers around who have had a close encounter such as
 > that.  I used to have
    I suppose so ...... but I SHOULD have KNOWN BETTER . Usually I am a
very cautious person ..... careful ... this time I wasn't and I just can't 
help
thinking that I would never have been able to forgive myself if something had
of happened to SEDONA.
 > a 2-year old gelding I simply loved and I also loved
 > spectating the carting
 > classes at the A-rated shows, which led to my desire for he
 > and I to learn
 > to cart (for pleasure of course) (smile!).  We were in
 > training
 > approximately 60 days and the training did wonders for both
 > of us in many
    Very good ....
 > ways.  Anyway my X provided a training cart (Xmas present)
    That was nice of him!
 > for us and 1 evening we decided to test it out.  My gelding
 > was accustomed
 > to all the apparatus including blinders, but had never
 > heard the sounds the
 > fenders began making, and consequently he was skiddish, so
    It's sometimes little things that disturb the horses .....
 > my X felt he
 > should test-drive me just to get him used to the rattling.
 > Well, 15 seconds
 > after they began my X bailed out because the cart was about
 > to tip over, and
 > consequently my gelding was "on his own".  Long and short,
    Oh noooooooooooooooo ......
 > when we found him
 > he had flipped the cart over himself and he was laying in a
 > mound of dirt on
 > his side.  I worried that surely he must be severely
 > injured, but I spoke
 > calmly to him (scared as I was), and he allowed me to
    Good for you ...... I know how you must have been shaking.  I was so 
pset
and shakey when I got to SEDONA and my surrey (4-wheel carriage) that there 
was
no way I could have driven her home.  Good think my hubby had come on the 
scene
-- he drove her home for me.
 > unstrap the
 > contraption and he stood up.  My X was miffed at him, so I
 > hurried my boy
 > away who only sustained a little lameness for 1 day.  After
    Oh how lucky you were!!
 > it was over, I
 > fell apart.  But he and my X survived and we later went on
    I can just imagine!
 > to cart in some
 > amateur classes and earned a few blues.  He's the colt who
 > was born on
 > Mother's Day, and he's 14 years old and is owned by a
 > couple who got their
 > 1st horse at age 50.  He is their baby!  This gelding and I
    How nice .... and I'm sure that they are enjoying him too!
 > had some real
 > learning experiences.  Boy the stuff they go thru for us!
 > Nice chatting!
    Heheheheh .... you got that right!!  Thank you so much for sharing your
expierence with me.  Now I don't feel so badly -- and, I'm right proud of
SEDONA for staying so calm!!!
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