I would like to get some of you horse people out there who run riding
lesson programs along with EAP programs. My question is do you use
your horses that you use for riding lessons and also use them for
EAP? Or do you have horses you use for riding lessons and seperate
horses you use for EAP? And why??

I have only been at my new job for 3 months. It is a residential
program for kids and they have been doing EAP for 4 years. They have
a new horse person who is doing the riding lessons, she may have been
there for a year or less. This person went to one of the trainings
for OK Corral but did not like it and felt it was too hard on the
horses. She observed an activity during one of the EAP sessions
(using only the older mares who are no longer used for riding
lessons) and observed a group of male adolescents using a piece of
PVC pipe and a plastic milk crate to make noise to make the horses
move (Lesson was Equine Billiards) She felt that the noise the boys
made was too disturbing to use the lesson horses and that it would
ruin them as they are younger horses and would react more to the
noise.

I am just wondering how other people see EAP used and if any of you
feel there is any "damage" that might be done to lesson horses for
riding and should not be used for EAP.

Courious.........Char