Anyone else’s horses feeling TOO well at the moment?!

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Or just Bella?! 🫣 She is very fit, I’ve just clipped her a full clip on Sunday (I don’t think she’s ever had a full clip… she looks super smart but I might be regretting it now! 😆 I don’t think that the full cause but it’s not helping!!

Grass is coming through, and she’s really been getting to grips with jumping and loving it a bit too much. I’m getting too old for rodeos 🤠 lol 😂
 

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Yes. Yes and yes in spades. I am SO glad you posted this.

He decked me for the first time ever at the weekend and this is one of the bruises, thank GOD I was wearing my air jacket or I'd have broken ribs.

I also had a terrifying hack last Saturday, and he is usually something you'd put your nan on to hack, and he's consistently piaffing in from the field - my YO keeps messaging me in the morning saying 'I don't know what drugs your horse is on but he's been cantering round and round the field for the last 10 minutes'.

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I think because we had such burnt off grass for so long, and now it's raining it's really flushing that the sugar is sending them all a bit loopy.
 
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AShetlandBitMeOnce said:
I think because we had such burnt off grass for so long, and now it's raining it's really flushing that the sugar is sending them all a bit loopy.
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I haven't let mine onto anything extra yet, they're still on the fairly bare acre they've spent the entire summer on! I can see the winter bit at the bottom getting brighter and brighter green and it terrifies me 😆 They're not allowed near it for at least another month 😬
 
SEL said:
Yup. He's been really flat all summer but we've just been out for a hack with my friend and rather than canter we bounced. I think it looked like some version of the hokey cokey...

Clinic last Sat involved us entering the arena showing a cracking passage along with stallion snorts.

My neckstrap is out!
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I think I’m going to get a neck strap out too! 🫣
 
AShetlandBitMeOnce said:
Yes. Yes and yes in spade. I am SO glad you posted this.

He decked me for the first time ever at the weekend and this is one of the bruises, thanks GOD I was wearing my air jacket or I'd have broken ribs.

I also had a terrifying hack last Saturday, and he is usually something you'd put your nan on to hack, and he's consistently piaffing in from the field - my YO keeps messaging me in the morning saying 'I don't know what drugs your horse is on but he's been cantering round and round the field for the last 10 minutes'.

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I think because we had such burnt off grass for so long, and now it's raining it's really flushing that the sugar is sending them all a bit loopy.
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Ouch!

Well I went out for a long hack this morning. Planned on popping the little cross country jumps we have local to us and it blew her brain completely! I think hits the stopping and turning around and walking back down so we won’t be doing this for a while now I don’t think - I’ll stick to jumping in the school. I have upped the brakes lately because they have been lacking so instead we had a bit of a rodeo - I had to get off and walk for a few mins to calm her down and then get back on. She was very on her toes and dripping with sweat so I am glad she was clipped as she still had to have a bath!
 
I went to a jump clinic on Bella on Sunday. It was blowing a gale with storm Amy which didn’t help. Hour hack there. Hour lesson. Hour hack back. She was so wired that we didn’t even jump. Just flat work between the fences. After three hours of ridden work, she was still bouncing off the walls. Embarrassing lesson with J Allison. I went home with my head in shame
 
I had a moment with cob a week ago, it was a few days after she’d started having access to the Chernobyl grass. She felt a little pingy so I did 1/2 an hour of more-or-less solid trotwork with regular transitions and changes in direction. I thought I had re-connected brain to legs, but no! Went for canter and she launched into out-and-out gallop around a tight bend, with some bucks added in for good measure! I managed to stay on, but decided that more canter wasn’t on the cards and did some more trot before cooling off.

I have now committed to lunging her for 15mins before getting on while the grass is looking this luminous, she’s been good as gold since then though!
 
exracehorse said:
I went to a jump clinic on Bella on Sunday. It was blowing a gale with storm Amy which didn’t help. Hour hack there. Hour lesson. Hour hack back. She was so wired that we didn’t even jump. Just flat work between the fences. After three hours of ridden work, she was still bouncing off the walls. Embarrassing lesson with J Allison. I went home with my head in shame
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Hmm maybe there is something is something in the air for horse’s called Bella at the moment then!! 😂
 
Widgeon said:
I haven't let mine onto anything extra yet, they're still on the fairly bare acre they've spent the entire summer on! I can see the winter bit at the bottom getting brighter and brighter green and it terrifies me 😆 They're not allowed near it for at least another month 😬
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We haven't moved fields, they only have one field for all year round, but because we are on well draining, south facing, sandy soil on the Downs it recovers incredibly quickly!! They have also gone from overnight turnout to daytime turnout a couple weeks ago, so they're not on it as long. Keep them on the bare field for as long as possible (or until the ground is a bit softer to land on, just in case 😂 )
 
Yes! My youngster went for a 3.5 hour fast hack and was still fresh as a daisy when he got back. The older one was happily and unhelpfully zooming off after some of his flying changes - not the 'flying' I'd been aiming for 😒
 
AShetlandBitMeOnce said:
Yes. Yes and yes in spades. I am SO glad you posted this.

He decked me for the first time ever at the weekend and this is one of the bruises, thank GOD I was wearing my air jacket or I'd have broken ribs.

I also had a terrifying hack last Saturday, and he is usually something you'd put your nan on to hack, and he's consistently piaffing in from the field - my YO keeps messaging me in the morning saying 'I don't know what drugs your horse is on but he's been cantering round and round the field for the last 10 minutes'.

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I think because we had such burnt off grass for so long, and now it's raining it's really flushing that the sugar is sending them all a bit loopy.
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A) that’s a pretty cool tattoo
B) impressive he has managed to colour the petals (?) so accurately for you 😆
 
HopOnTrot said:
Both of mine are wildly in season and conducting a love affair with the broodmare next door.
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I rode with my friend this morning. Her mare has ignored my annoying boy cob all year but this morning decided she was madly in love and kept stopping to squirt at him. I'd like to blame her for his hokey cokey dancing but I think he'd have put on that display even without her affections.
 
Oh hell yeah - Baggs is kind of semi retired cause I am focusing on Rabbit and he had a hard start to life before I got him, so I always knew that he would need his work load lessening sooner than other horses.

I've been mega lucky in that my grass has recovered really well from the long dry spell that we had, so I've been slowly introducing both Baggs and Rabbit to the fresher stuff slowly as to try and mitigate any unwanted behaviour and keep their tummies happy.

I went for a ride with a friend on her gelding and other friend on her mare a few nights ago - none of us has breaks or any say in what speed we wanted!

I had piaffing, passaging, jogging sideways, broncing into trot, snorting like a dragon, a mini rear, he took off up a steep hill with me in canter and took umpteen strides to pull him up. Proceeded to finish the 2 hour hack by broncing past the yard owners house as we went down the driveway. Yard owner leant out her window and asked if I had any brakes - I replied not a bloody hope and she just laughed. She then saw my friends come in with the exact same predicament behind me and said that she'll be lunging her lad before getting on him!

Once we were back in the yard and all dismounted I took one look at Baggs and he was dripping....the saddle cloth was wrung out twice before being popped into a carrier bag for the car journey home, I turfed Baggs out into the field after a brief sponge off (wanted to give him a proper cool down but he was hurling himself around like an absolute tart so it wasn't safe enough :rolleyes:) and as I left the field, I heard a massive squeal. Turned around to see Baggs had yeeted himself straight into the electric fencing in his exuberance and gotten one hell of a shock....he mooched off to graze, and I popped back later to check on him as I was concerned that he'd gotten a zap when wet.

He's supposed to have arthritis in his hocks, stifles, one hip and one shoulder - yet the beautiful passage he pulled off as I got him in the following morning would make you doubt that very much!

Don't get me wrong, I like seeing him enjoy himself, but I'd prefer a chilled buckle ride after a day at work, not one where I felt that I was at sea with the amount of bobbing around I was doing...
 
I had a quick hack before work, today. It takes me 30 minutes if we trot most of it. Today we walked aside from a couple of short trots, but still did it in 30 minutes. Tells you all you need to know. He's PSSM1, too, so speed hacks are not a normal part of our routine!! Oh and the eyes were on stalks at some paint on trees. The martingale might go on soon...
 
Tried to record an e-riders prelim this morning.
Down centre line to C turn right - squeak, buck, spook.
Start again
This time get as far as the first canter transition. Huge fart, enormous buck, few strides of canter switching legs with a few more bucks for added effect.
Stop recording & decide we'll practice the canter bit to calm down. Wonder where neckstrap is.
Get 2 decent 20m circles so start recording again. Trot work awesome. Feeling confident.
Gently ask for first canter transition on corner hoping it'll focus his mind. Mind not focused. Huge buck, Huge fart, One time tempi changes down long side with more farting for effect.

Give up filming. Go hacking.
 
Mine has been extra looky and did quite a spook at a leaf the other week. Yes. A leaf.

He also jumped out of his skin and took off when someone hit a golf ball last weekend. He has been taken by surprise before but he had no warning signs.

He was super looky on a hack we have done a million and a half times.

Today he was especially strange. He insisted on not being in his stable to the point he basically ran me over. I got him back and halter on and he refused to go back in. He had his haynet too...I did get him back in the stable and as I was turning him around he bee-lined for the door again so I tied him up outside since thats apparently what he wanted. He was also very stroppy about getting his dinner tonight, raising a front leg as a threat.

He's just had a week of psyllium husk and assumed it was his tummy feeling better as he was just being weird and annoying as f-----...which he does when he feels good!
 
SEL said:
Tried to record an e-riders prelim this morning.
Down centre line to C turn right - squeak, buck, spook.
Start again
This time get as far as the first canter transition. Huge fart, enormous buck, few strides of canter switching legs with a few more bucks for added effect.
Stop recording & decide we'll practice the canter bit to calm down. Wonder where neckstrap is.
Get 2 decent 20m circles so start recording again. Trot work awesome. Feeling confident.
Gently ask for first canter transition on corner hoping it'll focus his mind. Mind not focused. Huge buck, Huge fart, One time tempi changes down long side with more farting for effect.

Give up filming. Go hacking.
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Do you get someone to film you for it or is it allowed to place the camera somewhere and film it yourself? General question!
 
spotty_pony2 said:
Do you get someone to film you for it or is it allowed to place the camera somewhere and film it yourself? General question!
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My OH is dragged in to film. Lots use PIVO but I think it can sometimes lose the rider or randomly focus on something else.

OH is a pro now although I could hear him sniggering as I sat bronc #3
 
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