Bolshy Mare Breaking Stuff

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Does any one have any ideas for stopping a horse who habitually pulls back and breaks stuff when she doesn't want to tie up?
Her head teeth back whatever are fine, she's not nervous and generally doesn't have a problem being tied up but when she is being a cow bag she just pulls until something breaks. She doesn't panic or run off just wanders round the yard but it is costing me a fortune in head collars and lead ropes and I want to start taking her out properly soon so this is obviously not a desirable trait.
I've given up on using bailer twine and tried the chain type of trailer ties she just leans all her weight on it until the clip gives or the ring breaks. I've tried attaching several leadropes but again same thing. I keep telling myself all her 'attitude' will pay dividends once it's channelled in the right direction but right now ....ARGH!
What I really need is something that won't break (obviously I wouldn't leave her unattended) because she has just learnt that if she leans enough she gets loose and then hopefully she'll give up trying. Any ideas?!
Thanks for sticking with this!
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Yes but when she is in a piggy mood she'll still pull away I'm not leaving her for hours or anything just while I skip out. Really am pulling my hair out about this.
 
Believe me it may take some time. Murphy would habitually do this. He would stand tied up and for no reason at all pull back and wander off, just because he felt like it. Tarquin also does it too but that's because he's an oik with no manners. In the end after buying shares in lead ropes I taught Murphy to be ground tied like Western horses and he has never really needed to be tied up since. I obviously tie him up at shows when he's left unattended but when tacking up, even in Patchetts lorry park on a busy day he just stood all calm while he was tacked up and no one held him or tied him up. He was also costing me a fortune in physio/chiro for his atlas displacement caused by pulling back.
Your mare sounds more like Tarquin though, he is just plain cussed and I have given up tying him up outside, he stands in his box to be tacked up and even in there will not tie up to the ring at the back as he likes to look over the door. With time I hope he'll grow out of it as he is good on the lorry about being tied up.
 
My mare did this many moons ago - not pulling back out of fear, just deliberately backing up til she broke the string...then tiptoeing off to find food (she never trotted because she knew I'd hear her hoofsteps, the cow
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I clipped a lunge line to the tie ring, ran it round her quarters (threading it through a baling twine doubled over her back to stop it dropping) above her hocks, then back through the tie ring.
When she backed up, the lunge line tightened round her bum.
That stopped her.
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ETA: For safety, you should really secure both ends of the lunge line to the tie ring using string.
 
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