> We have a lot of horses, most of them showable, but we like
 > to trail
 > ride better.  We go to the local riding club, when the
    Me too Janet  -- me too!!
 > I can handle it in the round pen right now (grin)  talk
 > about riding
 > merry go round horses.  He's bored, I'm bored...  And don't
 > get me
 > wrong, he isn't spoiled, or mean.  He has the potential to
 > be even a
 > great beginners horse if he's ridden regularly for a year
 > or two.  But
 > he has a way of getting scared that escalates into a kind
 > of hysteria
 > that doesn't go well with my own phobia.  I aggravate it,
 > but his
 > tendency is not a horse that comes back down from being
 > scared quickly.
    I know exactly what you mean .... I'm still a bit "gun shy" from being 
thrown a couple years ago -- have nasty "flashbacks" from time to time ..... 
then I get scared and the horse knows it. I'm feeling better and better about 
driving now.
 > Anyone there got gaited horses?  And how do you start a
 > horse to learn
 > to pull things?  (As in carts, logs, buggys, etc...)  One
 > of our horses
    I have a SADDLEBRED mare and an Arabian that both pull - we trained the 
Arabian from a baby -- the SADDLEBRED is a recent acquisition.  OH yea, we 
also have a 10.1 hand tall pony who pulls a cart that we trained.
    Both the pony and the Arabian (we call him Mr X) were really easy to 
train to pull ... we did a lot of ground driving ...
    Good luck with training yours to pull -- if they like doing being in 
harness it's not hard at all and they figure out really easy what you want 
them to do.
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