HeresHoping
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Hi all,
Would be very grateful for some suggestions as to how to cure a nasty buck, please. I'm sure it's not nasty (although his feet regularly clear my head), just exuberance and lack of balance, but I'm finding that the more he does it, the faster my confidence runs away with me. In fact, I will admit, my bottle is quite lost - and I hate myself for it. I used to be quite fearless...
He has had his saddle fitted to him, and he has had his back checked. He is having his teeth done next week. My instructor says he's just being naughty and evasive...but it's really getting to me.
Mr S, 7, is an ex NH racer who only ever achieved one PtP in his life time - in May 2011. His owner schooled, hunted, hacked him and did a bit of pole work (think she may have done a clear round or two). She sold him to the person I bought him off who no sooner had she bought him found out she was pregnant. She rode him in the school only for 6 months (he's got all the basics) and then he did nothing from January to mid June this year when I bought him. He came home to me on 06 July. We try to go out hacking twice/three times a week, and school 3 times per week with one jumping session. The boy can jump. He needs a lot of work to build up his back end which even looks weak. No hills in the Fens so have to resort to other methods.
I'm making promises to get up and lunge three mornings a week now the children are back at school but thus far attempts have been thwarted so he's lucky to get one. After yesterday's experience I will lunge him tonight before schooling, however. I am using a chambon to help build up his back muscles as I don't own a pessoa and given his propensity to fly kick at anything, am not sure I want anything round his back end at the moment.
The first time I experienced his abilities to buck was on our second hack...he bronc-ed on the Green. It was quite frightening not least because it was covered in kids. I got off when he took a pause. And put it down to the flies. But that was just the start. I've had it in the school every other session, and when we went to our first show, I found I was sitting on an unexploded bomb. As a result, we didn't jump because I thought that if he got his head down that would be it. On our hack last week, his feet hit the stubble and the back ones didn't really come down again - clever horse, can buck in trot. I obviously pull his head up but it takes the wind out of my sails and this in turn means I'm not driving him on.
Last night I whipped him round in tiny circles until I was dizzy before he could put in a 4th one in succession - don't flame me, please, I reacted badly and that's why I am writing on here for advice.
So, if you managed to get to the end of that long winded plea for help, please do tell me what I should be doing, when, and how. I have ridden ex-TBs galore but this one is mine and I'm b*ggered if he's going to beat me.
Thank you. And apologies if I don't come back on straight away, I have a deadline to meet for work. Will be back later.
Would be very grateful for some suggestions as to how to cure a nasty buck, please. I'm sure it's not nasty (although his feet regularly clear my head), just exuberance and lack of balance, but I'm finding that the more he does it, the faster my confidence runs away with me. In fact, I will admit, my bottle is quite lost - and I hate myself for it. I used to be quite fearless...
He has had his saddle fitted to him, and he has had his back checked. He is having his teeth done next week. My instructor says he's just being naughty and evasive...but it's really getting to me.
Mr S, 7, is an ex NH racer who only ever achieved one PtP in his life time - in May 2011. His owner schooled, hunted, hacked him and did a bit of pole work (think she may have done a clear round or two). She sold him to the person I bought him off who no sooner had she bought him found out she was pregnant. She rode him in the school only for 6 months (he's got all the basics) and then he did nothing from January to mid June this year when I bought him. He came home to me on 06 July. We try to go out hacking twice/three times a week, and school 3 times per week with one jumping session. The boy can jump. He needs a lot of work to build up his back end which even looks weak. No hills in the Fens so have to resort to other methods.
I'm making promises to get up and lunge three mornings a week now the children are back at school but thus far attempts have been thwarted so he's lucky to get one. After yesterday's experience I will lunge him tonight before schooling, however. I am using a chambon to help build up his back muscles as I don't own a pessoa and given his propensity to fly kick at anything, am not sure I want anything round his back end at the moment.
The first time I experienced his abilities to buck was on our second hack...he bronc-ed on the Green. It was quite frightening not least because it was covered in kids. I got off when he took a pause. And put it down to the flies. But that was just the start. I've had it in the school every other session, and when we went to our first show, I found I was sitting on an unexploded bomb. As a result, we didn't jump because I thought that if he got his head down that would be it. On our hack last week, his feet hit the stubble and the back ones didn't really come down again - clever horse, can buck in trot. I obviously pull his head up but it takes the wind out of my sails and this in turn means I'm not driving him on.
Last night I whipped him round in tiny circles until I was dizzy before he could put in a 4th one in succession - don't flame me, please, I reacted badly and that's why I am writing on here for advice.
So, if you managed to get to the end of that long winded plea for help, please do tell me what I should be doing, when, and how. I have ridden ex-TBs galore but this one is mine and I'm b*ggered if he's going to beat me.
Thank you. And apologies if I don't come back on straight away, I have a deadline to meet for work. Will be back later.
probably not a good time to tell you I came off and broke my arm a couple of weeks ago :-\ Please be careful! Wear a BP, and in my case I could have done with elbow pads :-( 
) but will invest. Mounting block mount - check. He's 16.2 and quite high withered so have ensured I am not pulling anything by always using a mounting block. I will also work on the roads a bit more.