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Understanding
The Rearing Horse and Rider
by A. D. Wagner
As he rode his favorite mare through the dense, thorny thickets of the southern Texas landscape, where chaps and gloves are a must when brushing up against the 8-foot-tall prickly pears and thorny bushes, his horse came to an unannounced stop. Instantly, she reared upward onto her hind feet. His apparently startled mount reached high into the air with her front legs and began stumbling over the rough, rocky terrain with her hind legs, at the same time thrashing her head back and forth.
In a fraction of a second, the horse reared upward and lost her balance. Everything the rider had ever learned about what to do on a rearing horse vanished...
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Rise and Fall of the Horseman
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