Reader Advice at the Mounting Block

In the last issue of the NWHS newsletter, our Horsekeeping Tip was to use a mounting block to save wear and tear on your tack, your body, and horse's back. A reader wrote in with an additional perspective and a word of warning we'd like to share with the rest of the NWHS community:

Be sure your horse is very used to a mounting block. I recently had a serious accident when my horse moved quickly away sideways from a mounting block, pulling me off the block with one foot in the stirrup. I ended up with a fractured pelvis (not really my horses fault, I am now doing more ground work with my horse making sure he doesn't move a hair until I ask him to!).

~Audrey

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