HoneyMonster1
Active Member
So firstly I need to apologise for the length of this, but I need to give a little backstory...
I have a horse who is beautiful, elegant, a great jumper and good mannered. However, she has some serious issues, such as in the winter she is a nightmare to get back from her field (literally picking you up with her nose and throwing you in to things because she is so frightened of the weather and desperate to get back to her stable). She is also very spooky, and awful to hack out by herself, and not great with others. She has many trust issues, and has to be cold shod, you can't pull her mane as she goes mad and she has to be sedated to be clipped.
All the above WAS the case, until just over a month ago when I moved yards. My horse appears to have turned placid! She doesn't race up and down to come in from the field, she's only spooked twice in the school as opposed to 200 times and we have hacked out successfully 3 times now. She just seems so much calmer and less stressed.
Now I would never have considered loaning her previously. It took me a long time and a lot of patience to be able to do normal stuff with her.
However, I am entering my last year of school and will then be going to uni. I didn't really have a plan previously. I was very worried, as she was unsaleable pretty much (not that I wanted to sell her), and obviously I was never going to find a loaner who would put up with her!
At her new yard she seems so much safer. She is not an easy ride still, but a am confident that a clam and collected rider would get loads from her. I am beginning to think about trying to find a loaner for my last year of school and hopefully when I start at uni.
Do you think this is feasible? What sort of thing would I need to put in an advert?
Thank you!
I have a horse who is beautiful, elegant, a great jumper and good mannered. However, she has some serious issues, such as in the winter she is a nightmare to get back from her field (literally picking you up with her nose and throwing you in to things because she is so frightened of the weather and desperate to get back to her stable). She is also very spooky, and awful to hack out by herself, and not great with others. She has many trust issues, and has to be cold shod, you can't pull her mane as she goes mad and she has to be sedated to be clipped.
All the above WAS the case, until just over a month ago when I moved yards. My horse appears to have turned placid! She doesn't race up and down to come in from the field, she's only spooked twice in the school as opposed to 200 times and we have hacked out successfully 3 times now. She just seems so much calmer and less stressed.
Now I would never have considered loaning her previously. It took me a long time and a lot of patience to be able to do normal stuff with her.
However, I am entering my last year of school and will then be going to uni. I didn't really have a plan previously. I was very worried, as she was unsaleable pretty much (not that I wanted to sell her), and obviously I was never going to find a loaner who would put up with her!
At her new yard she seems so much safer. She is not an easy ride still, but a am confident that a clam and collected rider would get loads from her. I am beginning to think about trying to find a loaner for my last year of school and hopefully when I start at uni.
Do you think this is feasible? What sort of thing would I need to put in an advert?
Thank you!
