BD Warm Up - Stallions

[Nicnac]

A question for you knowledgeable lot. Is the stallion rider responsible for keeping their horse out of situations which may upset their horse in a busy warm up or is it up to the other riders to watch out where the stallion is?

I personally can't read a bridle disc unless up quite close so would not be able to tell from 30 meters if the disc says stallion in tiny letters or is a number. I also wouldn't automatically clock if a horse has both a bridle disc and a numnah one.

 

[nikicb]

I don't think it should be any different to any one else. i.e. everyone should keep their horse 'under control' and not overly affect anyone else warmimg up. I have mainly had mares and have never had an issue warming up alongside stallions, presumably because both my and their horses are polite in company. In fact the only time I had an issue was warming up with my gelding who 'shut down' when there was a stallion warming up alongside him. Absolutely no fault of the stallion, I guess my gelding just felt a little inadequate.

 

[Nicnac]

Ok I was asked yesterday not to ride towards said stallion. Bit difficult when there are 5 horses going round and we're all respecting left to left and riding on inside track when walking. At the time I was trotting across the diagonal and she turned towards me on a circle. BD and she's far more experienced than I as gold rider whereas I am lowly bronze I don't think I did anything wrong both horses were absolutely under control and stallion didn't visibly react. I will however be more vigilent in future as to the presence of discs on bridle and saddlemat.

 

[Gloi]

If your stallion misbehaves around other horses I don't consider he is ready for competing in situations where he has to share space with others. Train him to work with others in a controlled environment. If that means you can only compete out of the breeding season , so be it. I say this as someone who has competed with a stallion and I considered I was only responsible for him, not anyone else's behaviour. (Though he was an absolute poppet)

 

[ihatework]

Ok I was asked yesterday not to ride towards said stallion. Bit difficult when there are 5 horses going round and we're all respecting left to left and riding on inside track when walking. At the time I was trotting across the diagonal and she turned towards me on a circle. BD and she's far more experienced than I as gold rider whereas I am lowly bronze I don't think I did anything wrong both horses were absolutely under control and stallion didn't visibly react. I will however be more vigilent in future as to the presence of discs on bridle and saddlemat.

You probably didn’t do anything wrong. Some people are just over entitled. You have just as much right to warm your horse up as they do. Provided you give everyone enough room to be safe, then if they don’t want to ride towards another horse then they are free to turn their stallion away. Try not to get too intimidated.

 

[Hallo2012]

having only competed stallions for the last ten years i can only comment as follows:

mine are all trained to know the difference between covering and competing and whilst they might be noisy initially in the warm up, they are not dangerous.

however when people trot in to their heads or leg yield their mares arse in to their face, they are asking for problems!

i would say the issue is that people generally are SO unaware-they ride round looking at their horses neck and don't pay any attention to a rider having a difficult time (we have all been there) or stallions, or obviously green horses etc.

if you are unsure if its entire just ask, we don't mind that.

OP on this occasion sounds like you were not in the wrong, i had a horse shy one and took it as my job to circle away to avoid head on passing etc.

 

[Grassy]

I was at Bicton show jumping with my mare & someone rode their stallion into her backside & stood there letting it sniff her, I had to shout at the rider to get him away!