Doc Bailie

By Ralph Galeano

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Full column word count 1508

 

     One thing usually leads to another when you’re trying to find a solution to a horse problem.  I scratched the hair off my head trying to figure out why one of our mares quit stopping on her hind end.  She stopped real pretty when I first started her but gradually lost that nice, smooth, natural stop that’s so easy to ride.  When a horse simply sets down on their butt and settles into the ground you just seem to melt into the saddle and go with the flow.  When they make a hard stop on their front end it can jar your teeth loose and rattle other things that make you wince.

 

 The column, Doc Bailie, tells about the process of finding the problem that caused the mare to loose her nice, smooth stop.  Neighbors, friends and trainers all had an opinion of why she wasn’t stopping on her hind quarters and started planting her front hooves in the ground.  It took the collaboration of a farrier and expertise of a Chiropractor to solve the problem and return her to burying her hind quarters in a beautiful sliding stop. 

               Readers will enjoy reading how the mystery of the sore mare  was solved.

 

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