nikicb
Well-Known Member
Our PB arab has a tendency to go disunited in canter when schooling. I think it is predominantly a schooling/training issue. I've had him a couple of months and he had mainly been jumped and hacked before. His trot has come on leaps and bounds and he now works in a nice outline and through his back most of the time. But in the canter transition he throws his head up and then can become disunited when we hit the next corner or go on a circle. He will also do flying changes (unasked!), but seems to do these less now that he is beginning to go on the correct bend.
At the moment, I'm trying to ignore the upward transition and work on the canter itself with the hope that once he learns to maintain the canter we can then start working on the transitions.
He has a new saddle (but did it with the old one as well), and has had his teeth checked. He also had a 5 stage vetting a couple of months ago, and the vet gave his back an extra check as I was a little concerned with his high head and tail carriage, but as I say he is PB arab and his way of going is what I would consider typically arab.
I would like to add at this point that he is 13'2" and 17 years old and has been bought as a confidence giver for my 13 year old. He is vey sane, and a lovely hack and doesn't disunite out hacking. If we can sort his canter out when schooling so that he can do the odd dressage test it would be great. But he meets all the requirements he was bought for, so it's not the end of the world if he doesn't. Interestingly he doesn't tend to disunite so often when son is riding, and I feel that is because son is not asking him to come round and through, whereas I tend ask for a little more. Our weights are around the same, and without wanting to blow my own trumpet, I probably have a more secure, and slightly lighter seat.
I want to get someone out to check his back just to eliminate any issues before I carry on with the schooling. My gut feel is that he's fine physically but would feel bad pushing him through this if he was in pain. My question is what sort of back person should I have? Also if anybody has dealt with anyone specifically in the Newbury area they could recommend, that would be great.
Many thanks.
At the moment, I'm trying to ignore the upward transition and work on the canter itself with the hope that once he learns to maintain the canter we can then start working on the transitions.
He has a new saddle (but did it with the old one as well), and has had his teeth checked. He also had a 5 stage vetting a couple of months ago, and the vet gave his back an extra check as I was a little concerned with his high head and tail carriage, but as I say he is PB arab and his way of going is what I would consider typically arab.
I would like to add at this point that he is 13'2" and 17 years old and has been bought as a confidence giver for my 13 year old. He is vey sane, and a lovely hack and doesn't disunite out hacking. If we can sort his canter out when schooling so that he can do the odd dressage test it would be great. But he meets all the requirements he was bought for, so it's not the end of the world if he doesn't. Interestingly he doesn't tend to disunite so often when son is riding, and I feel that is because son is not asking him to come round and through, whereas I tend ask for a little more. Our weights are around the same, and without wanting to blow my own trumpet, I probably have a more secure, and slightly lighter seat.
I want to get someone out to check his back just to eliminate any issues before I carry on with the schooling. My gut feel is that he's fine physically but would feel bad pushing him through this if he was in pain. My question is what sort of back person should I have? Also if anybody has dealt with anyone specifically in the Newbury area they could recommend, that would be great.
Many thanks.
