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You have to trust
your horse’s instinct. Some of them have an amazing ability
to decipher what is safe and what is not. One day I was down the
River Barle and after a big down fall of rain the river was very
deep and the current very strong. I was at a point in the river
that I often used to cross on my horse and by doing so it took at
least 20 minutes off my journey. This particular day I encouraged
George to enter the water and he refused. He planted his hooves
to the ground in flat defiance. I knew there was a good reason for
his refusal. Several other people pushed their horses into the river
and within minutes their horses werre under the current and both
riders and horses were floundering some 200 yards down the river.
It is a times like this that I am so grateful to have a wily old
friend like George.
David Linford
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