amage
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Apologies this may turn out kind of long. I have a cracking yearling colt that I bred myself. At weaning he went to my friends stud for the winter as we had nowhere suited to him as OH's yard is full of racehorses in training. He was bred for me and is hopefully going to be my future competition horse. The mare can be a little sharp at times (good sharp rather than silly sharp) and colt is by a TB stallion called Albano who is by Broken Hearted. He is a super mover and after careful consideration we intend on keeping him entire until at least two year old. His damline is super and quite unusual breeding and sire's youngstock are good to jump, excellent movers and selling well. Stud he was in for winter would be the ones standing him if he does cover in the future and it is after their appraisal we have agreed to keep him whole untill at least two year old and take semen to freeze (for private use). If at that stage we have any doubts about temperament/suitability for life as a stallion etc he will be cut. We are not looking to breed him for the sake of breeding but are equally aware that due to his stallions eldest stock only being 4 and 5 there are no entire sons on the ground. Equally important the mare is her dam's last daughter and end of her line so if there is any chance of carrying it on I would like to. Mare is back in foal as I do not own land etc and would like to wait and see what I have bred as it gets older rather than keep breeding for the sake of it. Mare however is 15 and while in perfect health do have to bare in mind that this could potentially be the only foal i get from her.
Anywho after that rambling intro (i'll offer a glass of wine at this stage!!) I now get to the question....he is now back with me in OH's yard and being a saucy little git. He will be turned out in the next couple of weeks but waiting on his new companion (2 yr old tb gelding) to arrive. He is getting wormed, vaccinated, feet done etc and is stabled with daily turnout in arena. He will be getting into field but as he only arrived back sun we want to take it gently before letting him in large open space. While in stud he was good as gold and very chilled out. Since arriving sun he is being a bit of a sod. Barging around with me and being quite ignorant. He is a dote inside the stable but as soon as he steps outside the door he is a git. He is better with OH than with me but I have been really looking forward to doing this handling work and getting to know him as an individual and also being able to do him myself. I am actually a bit afraid of him and he is not even being that bad. Today has just been a complete crisis of confidence ending in me blubbing to OH how will I ever ride him as a 4 year old if I can't even lead him around the yard as a yearling (yes I am aware of how illogical and ridiculous this statement is lol). I genuinely don't think him being entire is anything to do with the barginess as he is a late foal (june) so not even a full yearling. My sensible side is saying calm down as soon as he hits grass and has oodles more exercise he will settle and I will wonder what i was so worried about. i'm prob making him sound like a dangerous lunatic when he isn't. Anyway can anyone give me any advice? I know I do need to toughen up a bit and i'm prob having one of those days when everything is wrong anyway! Can offer a second glass of wine and some BLTs now!
Anywho after that rambling intro (i'll offer a glass of wine at this stage!!) I now get to the question....he is now back with me in OH's yard and being a saucy little git. He will be turned out in the next couple of weeks but waiting on his new companion (2 yr old tb gelding) to arrive. He is getting wormed, vaccinated, feet done etc and is stabled with daily turnout in arena. He will be getting into field but as he only arrived back sun we want to take it gently before letting him in large open space. While in stud he was good as gold and very chilled out. Since arriving sun he is being a bit of a sod. Barging around with me and being quite ignorant. He is a dote inside the stable but as soon as he steps outside the door he is a git. He is better with OH than with me but I have been really looking forward to doing this handling work and getting to know him as an individual and also being able to do him myself. I am actually a bit afraid of him and he is not even being that bad. Today has just been a complete crisis of confidence ending in me blubbing to OH how will I ever ride him as a 4 year old if I can't even lead him around the yard as a yearling (yes I am aware of how illogical and ridiculous this statement is lol). I genuinely don't think him being entire is anything to do with the barginess as he is a late foal (june) so not even a full yearling. My sensible side is saying calm down as soon as he hits grass and has oodles more exercise he will settle and I will wonder what i was so worried about. i'm prob making him sound like a dangerous lunatic when he isn't. Anyway can anyone give me any advice? I know I do need to toughen up a bit and i'm prob having one of those days when everything is wrong anyway! Can offer a second glass of wine and some BLTs now!
