Recent content by prodigal2

i could include some posts from yourself, I mean no harm but having experienced some scary bolts as a child heading towards trucks on a trunk road, and having to bring the horse down it has made me think there is a better way and getting your horse to control itself and cope with the unexpected...

in a word no... although i wonder if i would have done the test with a stiff right stifle. but that is by the by. what has been interesting in this thread is the amount of people with horses that bolt or have major spooking issues and are not looking to help the horses cope with these...

I hate the Alpha thing... I am not a horse and they know it, we smell different for a start, and they are not a human, what we do need to be a aware of is how they react, interact, and comprehend, and use that to build a framework for training. In fairness there is much in the american working...

I don’t consider that to be rude in the slightest. In fact i personally feel they have done you a favour, particularly as no one was hurt. The way i train my horses, the behaviour your horse showed indicates that the horse was not focused on you and what your doing. More importantly there is...

pilates, also exercises out of the Mary Wanless book Ride with your Mind. There are now many practitioners now doing equestrian pilates. and the big one for me is swapping my office chair for a pilates ball. it has changed everything for me. I can be away from home for 4 months and not ride...

The Spanish Riding School backs at 3 and they come into undersaddle work at 5. And some other classical schools do the similar. So not just a british thing.

This has been a very interesting thread. In the last 25 years there has been a huge change in our horses diets, and the feed companies are just part of the picture. 2 things that really get overlooked is haylage and the grasses that grow in pasture, which are then turned into the Haylage we...

My experience of the trainers using these are for a quick fix to achieve a particular outline. Now whether the pessoa is at fault solely or trainers trying to cram 3 years of basic training into 10 months maybe the question to be asked why so many good horses at certain yards are more prone to...

In the last 6 months we have had to change the vet practice we use as all the good practitioners there had left(including the good equine dentists), on the last visit to check one of ours that was running lame after casting a shoe. We had a lot of ambiguous thoughts(arthritis, splints, fracture...

Ok so in my mind drones are fitting into the list of things we as riders need to prepare our horses for, not different to tractors, dogs, trucks, cars, bicycles, low flying military helicopters and planes... you get my drift. And in fairness they are only like us, going about their day enjoying...

Hi horses99 It does appear as per your assumption that it is a learnt associative behavior, that is not to say there may be more to it, but lets assume it is that. So my gut( without seeing your horse) would be to break this into a 2 day rehab process to disassociate from prior bad experiences...

Much of what has already been said is all great, I would add to that a couple of rechargeable led work lights from B&Q or screwfix. as you can really see what you are doing when the light goes and pop them on the ground or prop them on a fence to give good work light during the winter months.