Doormouse
Well-Known Member
I have been given a charming 11 year old chaser as a hunter. He is great at home and a real saint to be honest but when I took him to look at hounds the other day (they were just down the road) he was fine for a bit and then lost his temper about being asked to stand still.
I appreciate that horses in training never have to stand still and that it is a fairly foreign concept and I did keep him walking in small circles but suddenly he started running backwards and then crouching and I really felt the next step was probably going to be an enormous buck! Call me a coward but I retreated out of the field fast!! I then discovered that even standing still on exercise results in a certain amount of reversing but no crouching unless asked to stay in roughly the same area for more than 5 minutes.
If he does buck I am fairly confident I will probably fall off, he is very athletic and from a standing start I suspect it will be messy.
What do I do?
I appreciate that horses in training never have to stand still and that it is a fairly foreign concept and I did keep him walking in small circles but suddenly he started running backwards and then crouching and I really felt the next step was probably going to be an enormous buck! Call me a coward but I retreated out of the field fast!! I then discovered that even standing still on exercise results in a certain amount of reversing but no crouching unless asked to stay in roughly the same area for more than 5 minutes.
If he does buck I am fairly confident I will probably fall off, he is very athletic and from a standing start I suspect it will be messy.
What do I do?