Recent content by britisheventer

my boy did this. Switched him from a comfort snaffle to a loose ring freaked out by the the action of it. Get a rubber one, sometimes it's the metal or the different action.

My horse did this and it was pain through the back, he had a sacroliac injury, which is not visible (pelvic). Does he have any lumps along his spine? Does he not stand on all fours? Rest one foot on the ground? Does he do it in canter? If there is no pain, everytime he does it dig your heels in...

Thankyou, it went well! I took him up a big steep hill, he saw the hill, and felt him jogging, initially I thought "oh *****!" I felt that I was nervous, then got angry at myself for being nervous, he was grunting and snorting like he usually does, so I just let him go, sounds bad, but it was...

See I would love to take him to some hunter classes, thankyou for this, I love how exhilarating a gallop is but I just thought about galloping him and it made me feel nervous! Which was unlike me as I would be the first one to say to offer a gallop, I think for him transitions out hacking is a...

he's just on a very little feed at the moment, he's good as gold normally it's just in an open space! I have another horse which is a cob, love to have a gallop on him as he's old enough to keep all fours on the ground haha

Thankyou!

hills hills hills! Riding up an incline is great for building up lots of muscle, in eventing you have 325 metres speed (steady canter) approaching drops steps into water etc, and 570 metres for on the flat, practise these speeds out hacking and nail em! Go on YouTube and type in eventing speeds...

Sounds silly, but works! When I have done every exercise I could think of, I get that bored I spell my name out in the arena! Maybe it's just me, but gets them thinking and off your leg, great for turning as well. So say if your name was "Amy" you would go from M to A to H ride up to X and halt...

I do try to pull, but the blighter sticks his chin to his neck! I haven't tried kicking him on because of me being a wimp and thinking he will really and truly dump and ditch me but I'm going to try it!:)

I will try that! Thankyou, his saddle fits fine, back sound, on the lunge he throws the odd buck when asked to go more foward, so I will try that and I'm riding him today, nervous but I need to tackle this if we're expected to go to any events lol:)

I do, they have cobs, fairly sensible but mine gets hot headed and loves to race them, when he gets on an open space I can feel him jog, when I try and make him trot he doesn't listen explodes into leaps and bucks from being a hot headed goon he is!

going to grit my teeth and Take him up to the the big steep hill,a fair bit of a way there but it will make him less of a bull ride, I'll take it into note about pushing him forward, he jumps into a canter, tooks his head under and leaps bucks leaps bucks, he's bloody big as well which doesn't...

i push my knee forward and sit back, which stops him when he rushes even faster, but it's the worst when he's out with others, as he thinks it's a race! This is why I'm a little worried to ask him for that bit more and go even more faster because I've had some bad falls at a canter, well a rodeo...

honestly I have a field and we mark it out, it's a little bumpy in some areas but it is brill! Specially because it will learn your horse to keep much more straighter and is usually the ground at comps (outdoor) we have sectioned ours off because my 17.2hh wb got a lil too excited with 2 acres...

hi, I have a young seven year old 17.2hh warmblood that I hack out regularly. Due to excitement, he has got me off by some extreme rodeo bronckos which quickly flipped me off like a catapult ,lovely. This is everytime he goes out with company and even by himself, in a big open space, ask him for...