jenbleep
Well-Known Member
ok well Frankie is coming on great in the school, our lessons are paying off! however i dont want us both to get bored so i try to tack him out for a hack about twice a week. however...i am starting to lose my confidence! and this has come from nowhere!
the hacking around Frankie's yard is completely crap. 2 big main roads with chavs and boy racers, lorries and motorbikes. it doesnt really scare him, just me! after about a 25 min walk we can get onto a common, i am still not sure where to go on it as ive only ever been on there about 3 times, on my own. Frankie spooks at noises int he grass, doesn't listen to me one little bit and starts to jog. i want to have fun with him but i cant find anywhere decent to canter, except one place but i can only really get about 5 strides of canter out of him! plus if i ask him to go faster he tenses up, he is still spooky and tbh it scares me a little bit.
i am so annoyed with myself because i have ridden horses like this before, so i dont understand where this loss of confidence has come from. i asked him to trot on the common on Monday, and his neck was really bent tinto his chest and he must've grown about 5 inches. i know its because he doesnt get out much, and i know that the answer to that is to take him out more! but i get nervous.
there isnt anyone to come out with me either, because i ride later than everyone else at the yard. this sucks because i want to gallop around to countryside and have fun like i used to on other horses, but this is no fun.
i cant move Frankie to a yard with better hacking; he doesn't belong to me and i dont think its fair to ask his owner to move hi just to satisfy me. (is it?
)
sorry ive gone on about it, its just im at work and no one here is horsey so they have no idea what im on about, and ive been thinking about for the last two days!
agh
the hacking around Frankie's yard is completely crap. 2 big main roads with chavs and boy racers, lorries and motorbikes. it doesnt really scare him, just me! after about a 25 min walk we can get onto a common, i am still not sure where to go on it as ive only ever been on there about 3 times, on my own. Frankie spooks at noises int he grass, doesn't listen to me one little bit and starts to jog. i want to have fun with him but i cant find anywhere decent to canter, except one place but i can only really get about 5 strides of canter out of him! plus if i ask him to go faster he tenses up, he is still spooky and tbh it scares me a little bit.
i am so annoyed with myself because i have ridden horses like this before, so i dont understand where this loss of confidence has come from. i asked him to trot on the common on Monday, and his neck was really bent tinto his chest and he must've grown about 5 inches. i know its because he doesnt get out much, and i know that the answer to that is to take him out more! but i get nervous.
there isnt anyone to come out with me either, because i ride later than everyone else at the yard. this sucks because i want to gallop around to countryside and have fun like i used to on other horses, but this is no fun.
i cant move Frankie to a yard with better hacking; he doesn't belong to me and i dont think its fair to ask his owner to move hi just to satisfy me. (is it?
sorry ive gone on about it, its just im at work and no one here is horsey so they have no idea what im on about, and ive been thinking about for the last two days!
agh
