kerrieberry2
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My youngster has been backed since March, been home since April, hes been going great, so pleased with him! until a week and a half ago!
We are on a private yard, just me and my horses, so no one to ride with! my mare is retired, shes 29 and only retried for the last yr and a half, one little thing after the other, and now I feel I'm too heavy for her! other than a large knee she is totally fine, she's not lame on the knee or anything but does have arthritis, which she's not on bute for yet, as its not required!
so based on the following storey, I'm wondering if it would make sense to get my light weigh friend to ride her, as a confident giver, and because he knows her, he's not going to feel the need to stop, sniff and make friends with her! What do you think......
story; I rode the boy last week and he learnt to plant himself when we got to a field full of horses! and each ride since he's planted unless he's going in the direction of this horsey field! then in my lesson at weekend he was a nightmare, it was a challenge just getting a walk!
so today I arranged to ride with a girl from my village, but she couldn't make it, so sent her young sharer, spoke to the girls mum and she promised her daughter was confident to ride out and the horse was sensible (as my boy has only been out in company twice) her mum was to cycle with her, later she said another 14yr old would cycle instead! so, i got ready and up on him. they went to the wrong farm so were 25 mins late! when we met they'd both ridden horses, which we followed fine, but was warned that the mare might kick!
anyway half way up the lane, the farmers dad came down in his tractor, rather than pulling over in the widest place, he kept coming, so we had to turn around, fine, until the "kicker" was behind us, panicked, bolted forward, my boy then panicked and reversed backwards at 100mph! the farmer just carried on coming, so I ended up getting off as I didn't feel safe (boy is a known rearer and 16'2, so didn't want to fall off) he was totally panicked, I ended up being pushed in to nettles, so I sent the girls off on their own and let him cool down for 5 mins! and I just rode him to the end of the lane and back!
sorry for the long story, I'm just feeling really C R A P tonight!!
We are on a private yard, just me and my horses, so no one to ride with! my mare is retired, shes 29 and only retried for the last yr and a half, one little thing after the other, and now I feel I'm too heavy for her! other than a large knee she is totally fine, she's not lame on the knee or anything but does have arthritis, which she's not on bute for yet, as its not required!
so based on the following storey, I'm wondering if it would make sense to get my light weigh friend to ride her, as a confident giver, and because he knows her, he's not going to feel the need to stop, sniff and make friends with her! What do you think......
story; I rode the boy last week and he learnt to plant himself when we got to a field full of horses! and each ride since he's planted unless he's going in the direction of this horsey field! then in my lesson at weekend he was a nightmare, it was a challenge just getting a walk!
so today I arranged to ride with a girl from my village, but she couldn't make it, so sent her young sharer, spoke to the girls mum and she promised her daughter was confident to ride out and the horse was sensible (as my boy has only been out in company twice) her mum was to cycle with her, later she said another 14yr old would cycle instead! so, i got ready and up on him. they went to the wrong farm so were 25 mins late! when we met they'd both ridden horses, which we followed fine, but was warned that the mare might kick!
anyway half way up the lane, the farmers dad came down in his tractor, rather than pulling over in the widest place, he kept coming, so we had to turn around, fine, until the "kicker" was behind us, panicked, bolted forward, my boy then panicked and reversed backwards at 100mph! the farmer just carried on coming, so I ended up getting off as I didn't feel safe (boy is a known rearer and 16'2, so didn't want to fall off) he was totally panicked, I ended up being pushed in to nettles, so I sent the girls off on their own and let him cool down for 5 mins! and I just rode him to the end of the lane and back!
sorry for the long story, I'm just feeling really C R A P tonight!!
