Eugh Another New Horse Thread!

Find another yard run by an experianced sensible horse women or man preferably someone who backs and rides away young horses all the time.
Buy some books and DVD's and read and learn find out when local places are running trainning clinics and go and watch if they allow it .
I would get the vet and a good equine physio preferably one who works with your vet to check your mare .
You will need to put the roller on your mare in the stable once the vet and physio have checked her never put it on without a Brest girth apply loosely at first and gradually tighten over the days if she's ok with it would leave it on for an hour a day . When you are confident she's ok with lead her about in hand in it.
But don't go it alone on this find the right help , you are responsible for this horses whole future it's a serious buisness starting horses ,they live with our errors for ever.
 
loverly said:
No one envisaged her running through the fence and hedge, if we could all see into the future we'd all change things we've done.
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I don't see a post and rail fence, if it is there i suggest you cut that hedge back so the horses can also see it, and make it a lot higher - i would not be happy with a post and rail fence of less than 6 feet with a drop like that behind it.

I am sorry but if you post such a video then you are going to receive a negative response.

As already said, next step is to get the mare out of that place to a proper yard, anything less would be negligence on your part.

I don't care if someone has qualifications coming out their backsides quite frankly, if that is the results of their work, then move on to someone trustworthy as she clearly doesn't have a clue!
 
loverly said:
I have not asked to be underscrutiny of what I did - I have ALREADY admitted it was a silly thing to do in the first place. No one envisaged her running through the fence and hedge, if we could all see into the future we'd all change things we've done.

I was under the instruction of my riding instructor who is fairly well known on the BSJA circuit - so I trusted her judgement.

I asked for everyone's opinion on what you next step would be, not what I should and shouldn't have done.

Please if you are going to drill into me anymore, don't - I've already read 3 pages of it.
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Please don't take this the wrong way but this statement only goes to show that you are not experienced enough to take on a young horse. No matter who told me that this sort of 'training' was acceptable, my reply would be the same, 'not on your *******ing life with my horse'
 
OK, what's happened has happened, and it cannot be undone, but you need to take steps to make sure these things don't happen.

As I have said, give her some time, then make friends with her again.

When you are doing any training with any animal, you should be putting them in a position, where they can easily choose the right thing to do, whilst feeling comfortable and safe, so they learn that the right choice they made is the easiest, and therefore will repeat it.

You, as the trainer, need to make sure that everything you introduce her to, is done with the care and patience, so that it educates her in the way you want her to behave, whilst at the same time, builds her confidence and trust in you, her rider.
 
The video is not mine and I only own the iron grey in the video.

As much as I value all your opinions, criticisms, values, etc... saying comments like "sell your horse", "you'll ruin it" is not helpful to me. Yes you can compare me to other threads about badly breaking in a horse as much as you like. But this horse has already been broken and ridden, so a reaction to the roller (or whatever it was that caused the bronking) was unexpected and yes I know with horses you must always expect the unexpected.

Yes you can also call me stupid, unexperienced, idiotic or whatever but at the end of the day, I'm sure they're are things you regret and this will always be mine so please do not drill it in to me anymore - I GET IT and you cannot make me feel any worse than I actually do now.

For all those asked about the mare, she is fine but a bit sore as expected.
 
I've not seen the video as it has been took off now, which i'm happy about as it sounded bad.
If she was my horse i would get her thoroughly checked out by a vet and have her checked out by a Mctimoney or other back type person. Then i would give at least 2-3 months off any sort of work while i built her trust back up and in the meantime find a good instructor that can help out when it comes to restarting her ridden education or find a good yard that specialises in starting youngsters and send her there to be be restarted.
I think i would find a different yard as it doesn't sound like the school is a great place to ride in, i would be very worried about getting bucked off and falling down that 8ft drop and getting seriously injured.
Whats done is done now you need to rebuild up some trust with her. Hope it doesn't take too long for you to get her start trusting you again and please learn from your mistakes or you will end up with a seriously messed up horse, if you can work with her properly from now on you can have a good relationship with her just having had a very shaky start.
 
micki said:
I've not seen the video as it has been took off now, which i'm happy about as it sounded bad.
If she was my horse i would get her thoroughly checked out by a vet and have her checked out by a Mctimoney or other back type person. Then i would give at least 2-3 months off any sort of work while i built her trust back up and in the meantime find a good instructor that can help out when it comes to restarting her ridden education or find a good yard that specialises in starting youngsters and send her there to be be restarted.
I think i would find a different yard as it doesn't sound like the school is a great place to ride in, i would be very worried about getting bucked off and falling down that 8ft drop and getting seriously injured.
Whats done is done now you need to rebuild up some trust with her. Hope it doesn't take too long for you to get her start trusting you again and please learn from your mistakes or you will end up with a seriously messed up horse, if you can work with her properly from now on you can have a good relationship with her just having had a very shaky start.
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Thank-you
 
Loverly... I'm sorry you've had such a roasting about this- but I can understand it- I saw the video earlier and DIDN'T reply in the heat of having initially seen it... probably a good job I sat on my hands or you'd have had another post to add to your bashing!

I am really pleased to see that you are feeling bad... NOT because I think you 'deserve to' or 'should' but because it shows that you genuinely realise that this was a terrible thing to happen and that you'll learn from it.

Don't beat yourself up (let HHO do it for you ;) ) long term- we DO all make mistakes, I bet there is not ONE person here who hasn't got a cringe-worthy memory of something they've done with a horse/horses in the past... and if they say they haven't I'd suspect they have memory problems.... but, please, DO learn from this.

TBH, I'd take the general consensus of advice, which is go right back to basics, very, very slowly build the trust back up with your lovely mare, and, no matter what, move her from that yard- quite apart from anything else, neither you nor her will EVER feel comfortable working in that school again, will you?

Have a {{hug}}, sounds like you could do with one, and I do hope that you and your gorgeous girl both recover from this ordeal quickly.
 
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