While that may seem like the right thing to do, you would be teaching your horse to over react to this situation. What you should do is relax, remain calm, pet your horse and show them that this is no big deal. Through positive exposure to new situations you can teach your horse to be dead calm. Sure they may get nervous, but unless you have done your ground work you shouldn't be on the horse. There is some risk involved in horse training for both you and the horse.
Horses can cause serious injury.
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