Books with Spirit - Horse Riding

Windsucking has traditionally been considered a bad habit or a vice.  Soserious a vice is it, that in some racing circles, a seller of the horse by racing law has to declare a horse as a windsucker.
 
But it appears that there’s more to windsucking than the bad habit that I thought it was.  Windsucking releases the feel good hormones, the endorphins, that have a similar effect to pain killing drugs that produce a “high”. There’s no doubt in my mind that a windsucker is the horse equivalent of a drug addict. 
 
When a horse windsucks he usually bites on to the edge of his stable or a fence post, arches his neck and takes a deep, grunting, sucking breath.  A windsucker has been or is usually stabled, they are most often racehorses.  I’ve known of horses that have had electric fencing to stop them and they’ve just reached down and sucked off their own legs. 
 
Click here to find out how we reduced our horse’s windsucking