Can you de-fizz a horse ?

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So, I have my little TB up for sale. I'm not expecting it to work TBH and so pose this question in all hope of someone having a magic answer.

She's a bit of a contradiction on hooves. She needs riding every day, or at least 5/7. If you then ride her fast she's good - but she's stiff, very stiff. personally I don't want to ride everywhere fast either.

If you ride her 2 or 3 times a week she doesn't buck rear tank or anything like that but she jogs everywhere, is very sideways - sometimes at a super slow canter but this is dangerous on the roads its nigh on impossible to get her backside in sometimes. But she isn't stiff and can stand this level or work with little or no ill effects. She's what I'd term a light hack which is the level of work I can fit in around my job/family/house/etc etc...

She throws her head around at any level of work...

The thing is on the ground she's wonderful. She has lovely manners, comes to a call, is gentle and I trust her.

If she doesn't sell I'll end up keeping her but what I wanted to know was if this is something that can be cured by schooling - external schooling or if a fizzy horse is fizzy and i'm kidding myself.

Her back is regularly checked, saddle is fitted to her, teeth everything up to date so I know its not pain related - she just wants to be going faster than she is. She's 15 is on veteran feed with added Glucosamine and micronised linseed and equivite original vitamins.

I've tried herbal based calmers in the past they made no difference at all.
 
my mare was like this, until the age of about 26!! to be fair, im sure she'd still be like it but I've not ridden her for a year for one reason or another!

was constant jogging, worse in company, so I hacked out alone for about 10yrs!! she wasn't fed until I tried her on stead up, which cost £30 a month and made no difference! so in the end I just gave in! I moved to a quite yard, with a long drive, she'd trot the length of that to get out, then we could almost double back on ourselves if we went through the woods, which were slightly up hill, so id take her there and just let her fly! by the time she'd got to the top she had got rid of her excess energy and would walk and trot at a sensible pace! but if I didn't have a gallop she'd go around the village like a crazy beast!

sorry im not help, I would probably take her off the veteran feed, 15 is still pretty young, baring in mind mines 28 now! id put her one something like fast fibre and molasses free high fi, that's what my mare has and she does good on it!! so I has nothing in it that will send her loopy!!
 
I swear by magnitude. It has calmed my TB down no end. It hasn't slowed him down at all, just chilled him out. He now can be left in the field while the other horse comes in to be ridden, doesn't stress at all. Also he is on no cereals at all.
 
If you dont ant to compete it might be worth trying valerian. My mare has a small pinch each day and it just takes the edge off her spookiness/bucking/squealing. Any more and she is a dope which I dont like ny less and she tries to kill me!!
 
I'm not sure if she can't be improved to be honest. My tb used to go most places sideways, up and down. We taught him a few school moves, just really simple things like leg yield and shoulder in. As soon as he started I'd be able to distract him by asking him to bed this way and that- also doing transitions. Anything to occupy his mind whilst still actually hacking quietly. It didn't always work but we got to the stage where 8 times out of 10 it did.
He also had magnesium which I think worked a lot.
 
Hi, thanks for the replies. If she doesn't sell I'll try the magnesium and valerian routes (not at the same time!) You can't put any leg on her at all, or she's much much worse, so it's really down to feed I think. Thanks again.x.
 
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