Tonight the lesson took place in Cash's field because despite ALL THE RAIN on the long weekend, the sand ring was dusty!
At any rate, good old easy going Pete passed by the south east corner of the field and leaped sideways. Now I had just tried to convince Zahra that Pete would be just fine and yet there he was spooking at nothing.
The two went around the field again and as they passed that corner he jumped sideways once more, almost losing poor Zahra in the process. Finally at this point, given that Pete rarely gets frightened, I thought perhaps we should investigate. There, lying in the grass, was metres and metres of electric fence wire that had all been pulled off the fence (Eddie???).
Where is the Black Beauty moment you ask? Well, remember when Black Beauty wouldn't cross the bridge because he sensed it had washed out? And remember how his driver had gotten angry with him for not getting on with things and doing as he was told? Well. It is a bit of a stretch [a bit? Ed.] but that is who Pete reminded me of tonight. None of us saw the fence wire was down and it would have been pretty awful if a horse had gotten caught up in it.
Okay. Maybe it is not quite a Black Beauty moment but it did remind me that horses often have a very good reason for acting the way they do and that instead of whispering "idiot!" under my breath when Pete jumped away from 'nothing' I should gone to look right away to see what was making him act out of character.
Live and learn......
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