any tips -horse that runs home

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My new mare has made huge progress in a year on roads and hacking but there is still one thing that concerns me.She never hacked on her own before i had her and is doing really well but if I ever came off she would run in panic straight home.We have to cross busy roads to get to main routes for hacking and she is now brilliant in traffic but if she was loose I couldnt bear it if she was hurt or caused a accident.I normally only canter in company just because of the safety aspect she is very sharp and spooks easily ,I know she is a panicker as I dismounted once and the man who was holding her let her go by accident and she bolted for home.
Is there anything I could do to retrain her to stand if I accidently came off.
She not frightened off me and comes to call but goes into blind panic if she loses her rider.
 
Yes I think so. I think Kelly Marks did something like this to a horse she was giving to a friend or something, they taught him to stop if the rider fell.

It would be hard work though i would imagine, and i wouldn't have the first clue!
Maybe you could practice fall with a carrot! lol
 
Yes, I have definitely seen an article about this, I think it was in Your Horse magazine, I think it was to do with Tellington Touch methods? but I'm not sure.
It involved teaching the horse to stop when a numnah was pulled from its back onto the floor and it was taught to touch the numnah with its nose and there was a carrot there for it. I'm pretty sure that was the basic idea, although of course there was more to it than that. You could maybe google it or see if Your Horse have any back copies or, indeed, if they know what I am talking about!
I am positive I have read something along those lines, though. Good luck.
 
In all honesty i think if a horse was running in blind panic, there would be little/nothing that would stop it getting to where it wanted to go, it thinks about nothing else.

However, if it was a case of "I'm lost i think i'l go home now", there was a programme on h&c the other day, kelly marks & monty roberts used a dummy to simulate a rider falling off, and to not take flight if this happened.

To be honest i think every horse should learn this from the breaking stage!
 
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