LadySam
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My original post was to ask whether people with experience of young ex-racers think I should crack on with re-schooling or give the youngster more time to mature first...
To answer your original question - I do some work with a racehorse re-training and re-homing program. When ours come off the track they get six months off in a paddock, out 24/7 with other horses to chill out and remember how to be a horse again. The thing with racehorses in training is that their lives tend to be sort of institutionalised from a very young age. A rest and a chance to be social with other horses, living in a herd (even a very small one) with everything that entails does them the world of good, we've found.