Anyone else's horse pratting about in this freezing cold?!

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I just spent £50 on the physio for my horse last Friday. Gave him few days off with the aim of riding him today. Arrive at yard and YO tells me he was seen pratting about and fell over twice! Great, physio reckons this is how he got asymmetrical in his pelvis! I checked him over but couldn't see any damage. Also the arena is semi frozen so didn't bother to try and ride him or do ground work! Damn horse! Dressage Saturday, great, at this rate with limited work, we'll be going down CL like a pogo stick! Bounce! bounce!
 
Yep.. my boy is acting like a total idiot!! He has a new trick.. buck, bunny hop, spin, bronk
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luckily I've managed to stay on but with the arena being frozen in the mornings I wont be able to ride suring the week at the mo.... eek!
 
Typical, isn't it when we owners rely on these facilities to exercise our beasts! I think I'll rough mine off and stay in bed!
 
Ah, Shantor, I was going to put up this very post myself the other day! Glad I'm not alone. Mine has been leaping about like Jonathan Edwards! Roll on spring!
 
Yes, Saskia, there's wisdom in that "roll on spring". I just hope we get there because the way he's pinging (all 18hh of him) we'll probably end up on the moon....
 
Both of mine are loons just now, a barbed wire bit wouldn't hold them! Glad that we are not the only ones with asbo ponies!
 
{{smug grin}} - my boy remains his angelic self - not ridden for a week (due to my back injury) - hacked out with friend this morning - did not put a foot wrong (and he is a TBxID) - I definately bought a good'un in him!!!
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thank goodness, even George the saint has been a bit loopy! When I lunged him yesterday, very good and placid, sent him on for a canter but no he wanted to gallop - tail held out straight, snorting and going hell for leather - how I hung onto that lunge line and stayed upright I will never know (must have been a sight!). Yet tonight, icy cold wind up his bum and he was an absolute poppet!!
 
My 'perfect' TB has for the first time since i bought him been an absolute s**t. Can win, if hes in for mudfever hes a loon the next day to put out, hes been bucking, rocking back to front legs when you ask him to go forward..... aaarggghhh!

The flat out gallop with handstand bucks when he goes out just arnt to good for him!! Apparantly every time about 12pm through the day he does about 10 laps of 25 acre field flat out- imagine if he didnt do that..... nightmare!!!!!!
 
I have just put both mine on holiday as from today so no dealing with "silly" moments for a while. I dont have an arena to ride in, only paddocks which is absolutely impossible during the worst months of Dec & Jan. My riding for this first half of the winter has been solely at weekend comps! Both will be off 'til end of Jan at least (depends on weather) and then will get a couple of weeks off again in March.
 
All this chilly weather doesn't half send them bonkers

I have to say my lad is being quite ok - but on sat when i was turning him out - pretty much every horse in every field was either charging around like loons or fighting....

It's a vicious circle - they are nutters in winter cos of the cold and lack of grass - then nutters in spring because of the excess grass....
 
Mine was so wild in the indoor SJ on Sunday that she jumped fence 2, took off flat out and ran straight into fence 3. Had the wing on the floor and me half way round her neck swearing.
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Was blinking furious with her as was only 2'9.... she jumped brilliantly in the 3' after a good 40mins work in the outdoor but she is just too full of herself to concentrate at the moment!. Nightmare. roll on spring.
 
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