dreadful panic attackin ifor trailer

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Finished auterm hunting just stood having a coffee and bacon butty when suddenly my lovely cob started shaking the trailer and suddenly jumped over the front breast bar then mad panic attack he's totally demolished the inside of the trailer and put his two front feet through the window knocking that out splashing glass everywhere all the boys were great they jumped into action and jumped over the back got a hammer and prized the partitions off as my cob had the breast bar and partition jammed under his belly my master was fantastic eventually we got my lovely boy off without a scratch if he hadn't had his boots on he would have lost his front legs through the window as the seal came off and its only shear aluminum at the front of an ifor. now shellshocked im changing my trailer to a bateson a smoother ride as my two cobs have always been a little unsteady in this trailer and its one of the older ones ive been shyed off the new ones as well master took my boy home in his lorry and he's now at kennels .
I truly beleive its the senior topspec thats blown his brain and made him into this tyron i will be ringing them today anyway hopefully i will get trailering again soon but I will never forget the scene i saw it was horrific and i'm a little nervous to say the least now !!
 
Very sorry to hear about your boy and if he managed to twist the central partition, you will see it has polystyrene in it
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. It's one of the reasons I went for a wessex. I just don't rate the build quality of an ifor!
 
My friend's horse also hada nasty experience in a trailer (it was an IW but that had nothing to do with it, it would have happened whatever he was in) and actually came out of the jockey door having gone over the breast bar. He didn't like being on his own when he was loaeded up after being with his friends all day and had a bit of a fit.

There was no damage to him but the area around the jockey door was buckled so we put him on a friend's trailer to get him home. He went straight on, travelled fine and has gone back on his own trailer plenty of times since then (after it was fixed) so hopefully as horrific as it seemed, your boy will travel happily again in a trailer.
 
I honestly, honestly doubt it was Topspec hun. It's tempting to put all odd horse behaviour down to a minor change in feeds but it's more likely something that to a horse was terrifying and to a human was invisible. I'd vote for a wasp.
 
I third the wasp theory. Both my mother and I have been stung this year and I have never been stung before!

I know someone who got dumped after her normally mild mannered horse went ballistic, that was probably a sting too. The wasp sting is sudden pain and would be enough to send them loopy and want out of the trailer.
 
Funny that, first thing I thought of was a wasp sting. Theres been so many of them about. Doubt very much its anything to do with the top spec.
 
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