Anyone with a similar experience?

HunTheBun

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I have a 14.1hh coblet who I compete at elementary he can go very nicely and I'm aiming for Medium/Advanced Medium.

I have recently been working on getting his canter more 'uphill' and we were really improving. Last thursday I rode him and he was brilliant - lovely and light in my hand etc. so we played around with a bit of half pass and all was fine. On Friday I got on him and he stretched down nicely at the start but as soon as I asked for trot he popped into canter. I brought him back to trot but he just kept popping into canter. All the time staying lovely and light and round :S He kept this up for a full hour. They were lovely transitions though...just not asked for!

I gave him the weekend off in the field in the hopes he would forget about it.

Yesterday I got on and exactly the same thing happened however I got him out of the 'canter' mode but ended up with a very short, stuffy, and wobbly trot. With him bent or doing travers all over the place...

He seemed to have changed overnight!?

I appreciate this is probably just a blip that I need to work through but has anyone else had this? Many thanks.
 
He has discovered that a nice light canter is far less work than a trot!! I think it might be a cob thing lol. Also sounds as if he is trying to second guess you with the travers etc.

Keep calm and work on it.. easier said than done, I know.
 
He seems to be avoiding working through in trot, it could be that he is just trying it on but I would want to get him checked by a physio to make sure there is not a pulled muscle or something that is causing this. He possibly overdid things the day he was working well.
 
Thank you - I guessed as much... :o And we have our physio coming in next week to do a routine check up on all the horses so I'll talk with her about it :)

I'm just about to jump on him so wish me luck lol
 
Just to let you know out dentist did a routine check up this morning, rode him this afternoon and he is back to normal. :) he can be a bit of a fusspot with his teeth! Thanks for your help :)
 
I ride a shire, and a similar sort of thing happens, I keep losing his back end to the inside when I try and collect his trot too much, also after lots of walk/canter, roll back/canter transitions
 
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