A concerned reader shared this alarming story with me on Sunday:
"My daughter and I had a scary incident this a.m. while hacking in Cheslen. We were up on a grassy bank and a bicyclist came silently down the dirt road beside us from behind us causing a violent spook (rear and bolt) from our horse and pony. The bicyclist had been able to see us from quite a long distance but apparently not being a horse person didn't realize the horse's instinct was to flee from attack from something silently and quickly coming up from behind. We stayed on, he stopped and apologized. Can we educate our cycling friends?"
Consider it done. Horses often "spook" at things we humans wouldn't consider threatening. A popular cartoon among horse lovers shows a terrified horse watching what would pass for the ultimate in a horse horror movie, entitled "The Flapping Plastic Bag."
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