Recent content by OliveYou

Thank you BayLady. You've all helped me realise I was asking far to much for her. I will work her in hand but the only issue I could see in it is the location. I will obviously avoid the common because if she goes up and gets free then I'm pretty much one horse down if she gets away up there...

Thank you everyone, you all have extremely good advise and experience. Today I took her up the school and my friend who is a very good rider/competer rode her. It was reassuring to see but dissapointly she did go up with her. It was completely out of the blue so she had no time to react until...

I'm hoping with maturity she will feel confident enough not to go up but she'll need security in my riding to get there. She is so calm and loving on foot and in the field, neither human or field mates have any issues there. I suppose that's a good sign too :)

Thank you everyone. I will practice plenty of halts and turning her when I feel the rear coming is a great hit of advice. I'd feel a lot more comfortable doing that than smack her or using force. I'm looking forward to seeing her today now, yesterday I couldn't wait to turn her out in the field...

Thank you all for your kind words and support. She is turned out on grass 24/7 at the moment but I think I will go with the majority and take things a step back. Avoid the common and work on stopping, standing and walking. The common can wait, everything can wait. She's only four, let's get the...

Thank you, your reply has brought me to tears. Your absolutely right, I'm expecting the world from her because she is beautiful and has so much potential. I know she will make a wonderful horse one day and I must step back and let her grow. Thank you for sharing the experience you had on that...

If it was her back she would be doing it in the school? She was turned away for 8 months when I bought her. Basically that is the question I'm asking though, do they mature and just stop doing it? The last youngster I broke and brought on was such a walk I'm just not sure what to expect :(

Always in walk, today we were on a common and she was holding onto the bit and very uptight but otherwise she does it when she gets bored of waiting for a car to pass in the lanes. A friend has suggested riding her in draw reins for a little while out hacking, what's peoples thoughts on this?

Hello, I have recently purchased a new ID x TB mare. She has recently turned 4 and I have owned her for 12 weeks. She has done very little schooling. She was broken and backed prior to me buying her but remains extremely green when ridden alone. She has developed quickly in the few weeks that...