You see this behavior depicted quite often in old pictures. What was the novelty/popularity of it? Or was it just an equine kiss 0 death?
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
Vintage horse training
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Wade G. Burck
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Wade - Perhaps this is for a farrier with a bad back so he doesn't have to bend over and pick up the hoof?
Jeannie
Jeannie,
All I know, is if that horse steps off with his left foot, that piece of oak is going to fly up and scalp his flanks.
Wade
Wade - I wonder if this is a permanent post in the ground or balancing somehow. If it is balancing, you are so right about that. Does not look like a very safe situation at all.
Jeannie
Jeannie,
If you enlarge it, it is mounted to a 4X4 piece of wood. I have seen this done with the extension attached to a pedestal, which seems safer. I just imagine this flying up and hitting the horse in the belly, and the horse dragging it's back legs or front legs over it to escape.
Wade
Wade - This is probably one of those "Looked really cool until the accident" type things.
Jeannie
I recall horse pedestals with a slot in a top corner to fit one of those arms in for the "manege" horse to put a front foot on for a "style". They were part of a group of liberty-manege-specialty horses that my dad worked on Kelly Miller in 1944 and I rode a nice black and white mare named Patches that did just that. These pedestals and that maneuver werr quite common in those and preceeding times. With Adolph Delbosq "Serenado" horse he used a small diameter top on a pedestal that could only accomodate one foot so the horse extended the other foot. Howefver he may have trained it using an extension.
Col. Herriott,
Where have you been? I've been worried. I trust you health is good.
I have always wondered about the difficulty of this trick, and assumed it was akin to a trunk/foot salute with an elephant. Hearing it from you validates it wasn't much. I have to assume getting a liberty act to do it without leaders would be a different deal and rather tough. There is a picture at Baraboo off a Black liberty act of 6 all on these "foot pedestals" outside of the tent.
Did you see the Kossmeyer pictures I posted on January 31? There was also a picture of a women on a rearing horse I was hoping you could identify. Go to the manure pile/archives on the right and find January 31, and it will take you there.
Welcome back, and I hope all is well. My best to Mary Ruth.
Wade
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