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Old 02-26-2009, 05:49 PM
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Originally Posted by the_fat_man
While I appreciate the lesson about the obvious, it's actually NOT as obvious as all that.

To get a horse to rate you do in fact need to RESTRAIN IT
but not how Douglas, Homeister, and countless others do it

the horse needs to be restrained without being choked out

though I suspect that if it were left up to the horses, we'd probably have some better run races --- couldn't be any worse
the problem is, you have to have the horse willing to be restrained-and sometimes horses just will not do it, regardless of what's tried. but i'm sure you knew that already too.
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