Did your new horse ever 'try it on'?

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I dont know about you guys but I generally expect a new horse to try it on at some point, ie be good for the first month or two, until they get their feet under the table, and then perhaps try and see what they can get away with.

Beau is actually the first horse Ive had that has never done this. I realised yesterday Ive been looking out for it happening, but it never has. He has been a good boy from day one.

So I was just wonderng what everyone elses experiences were?




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me too, except mine is 9months on!! I think they either have it in them or they dont........Bloss still trys it on occasionally too and ive had her 6yrs now!
 
Ben has had a few bucks and broncs but thats it. We went in a field and all we got from one side to the other was flat out gallop with bucks and broncs untill we hit trot again was funny, He hasnt done it since but I Wouldnt be bothered if he did. By the way I asked to go fast lol just not the other
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Oh yes - Thumper doesn't see why he has to come in from the field when everyone else get's to stay in it!!!!!
 
My boy came from Spain and was excellent for the first couple of months I think though on reflection he was in shock though as his true colours came out thereafter.
 
yup! he caused me so many problems I was in tears! However we have now established our relationship and he knows exactly when he is being naughty - he flings his head up and has a really mischievious glint in his eye when he's caught and then gets all sad when he is told off!! he's so funny when he does it though! bless him (though can't say I saw it like that when he wrecked his brand new rug and it was irreparable!)
 
God yes, for almost the first year we struggled to get anything apart from a jog or a very fast canter/gallop!! Got there in the end though....
I remember taking for a proper canter for the first time on a big open common. He didn't pull or tank at all and I said to the friend I was with, my god, I've bought the most well behaved horse ever!! Ha, little did I know, took him about 2 weeks and then his true colours came through! Once we got used to each other he is fine now though, but god know where that angelic horse from tha first went....I certainly havent seen him again!
 
mine was lovely for 9 months - unfit, fat, frozen shoulder - as soon as i changed all of that 'PING!!!' she was a bugger!!!! Thats gratitude for you!!!! x
 
Most certainly! I couldn't put his bridle on in one piece for the 1st 6 months as he would just lift his head and swing me across the box!
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I just laugh about it now!
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Sometimes in the summer he plants himself when being brought in from the field, or drags his feet so slowly that he is practically stopped! Any attempt to make him walk faster and he hops, (can't think of a better way to describe it - it's not really a rear) and tries to pull the lead rope out of my hand.
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I will have owned him 4 years next month.... I love him to bits and he wouldn't be him without the quirky little ways!
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My mare behaved herself beautifully for the first week or so, then she became impossible to catch, and would "bolt" while out on the road...

I found out a year or so later that her previous owner used to chase her around the field on a moped, and only ever took her out of the roads and galloped her on the grass verges
 
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