Blueysmum
Well-Known Member
Hi 
We’ve had our beautiful girl since May and things have been going well, she’s my daughter (18 next month) second horse, although first is a fat hairy cob and she is a 17 year old 16.3 ISH.
We have an amazing trainer who has completely changed things, Flavia is a very point and go horse and DD had absolutely no breaks over jumps. After working for a few months she has control when jumping.
The problem we are having is she DD rides on her own with no trainer presence. Flavia seems to take the absolute piss and she has no breaks in canter. She just locks on and goes. There has been a few times DD has nearly came off but luckily she’s equally strong and stubborn.
After trying to practice her dressage test last night and Flavia not stopping in canter DD has declared she never riding again
but has gone out and bought a new martingale today. We’ve been using one for the last few months and it’s helped slightly, more so when jumping.
It’s completely ruining her confidence, when she’s with the trainer she’s jumping 1m+, doing amazing contact etc but the min she’s on her own I feel she gets anxious and Flavia can spot it.
She absolutely hates her bit I think, she’s just in standard snaffle but she came with a stronger bit but she’s worse with that, she’s constantly fighting it and messing around with it.
Any help appreciated. Thank you x
We’ve had our beautiful girl since May and things have been going well, she’s my daughter (18 next month) second horse, although first is a fat hairy cob and she is a 17 year old 16.3 ISH.
We have an amazing trainer who has completely changed things, Flavia is a very point and go horse and DD had absolutely no breaks over jumps. After working for a few months she has control when jumping.
The problem we are having is she DD rides on her own with no trainer presence. Flavia seems to take the absolute piss and she has no breaks in canter. She just locks on and goes. There has been a few times DD has nearly came off but luckily she’s equally strong and stubborn.
After trying to practice her dressage test last night and Flavia not stopping in canter DD has declared she never riding again
but has gone out and bought a new martingale today. We’ve been using one for the last few months and it’s helped slightly, more so when jumping.It’s completely ruining her confidence, when she’s with the trainer she’s jumping 1m+, doing amazing contact etc but the min she’s on her own I feel she gets anxious and Flavia can spot it.
She absolutely hates her bit I think, she’s just in standard snaffle but she came with a stronger bit but she’s worse with that, she’s constantly fighting it and messing around with it.
Any help appreciated. Thank you x
