Are all anglo arabs the same?

[janice160]

My anglo arab Reo is 7 years old and 16.2. Sometimes he's very laid back and we can have a lovely hack and then, on other days, he's horrible. He can be lovely and then, for no apparent reason, get all silly and just mess about jogging and not listening. I've tried working it out of him which isn't easy when he's like that because he just doesn't listen and I've also tried making him stand, which he will do, and then asking him to walk on but it isn't long before were jogging again. Any advice would be welcome please.

 

[Avonbrook]

No more than all TB's are the same, or Connies, or Welsh Cobs or Shetlands...

For what it is worth having ridden TBs and arabs as well as various cross breds some involving arab and others not I would be inclined to make jogging hard work ie to be done in an outline possibly with leg yielding each way and reward walk strides by allowing a stretch re-establishing the outline as soon as he breaks back into trot. Mostly the ones I rode got the message at some point and I have been very grateful over the years to the person who insisted that I took this approach with her horses.

 

[howengold]

My sisters old anglo was a complete ditz but so was my welsh x arab who has just retired. I have found their energy lasts for ever! Even now Sov will jog but I sort of put up with it in the end as she is 36 and didn't think it was in either of our benefit to try changing her in her last ridden year (only bought her a year before).

It takes a fair bit of schooling with some but others click what you want straight away, well within a few weeks anyway.