There's nothing better than the sight of the trail between two ears!!! I agree with everyone that stated to make it known you are there-on a bike or on a horse! I have also owned and trained horses for as long as I've been walking and I can tell you this, it hurts REALLY, REALLY bad to be dumped from a horse and drug or stomped on b/c the horse was spooked by a bike rider! And, yep it happened to me and on a "safe" horse . I must admit, I was VERY surprised by this mare's total freak out! I've seen people shoot off of her, do a drag bag of cans, rope cattle and completely ignore flags!

You'll all love this....the owner told me after we wrapped my bruised ribs "I forgot that she is terrified of bikes!" That little bit of info would have been very welcomed about 4 hrs earlier!

The point is this, a biker is safer than the horse rider so keep up the good work on letting your presence known and wait to know what the horse rider wants to do.