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I have had my horse for a year and a half, I put a wanted ad up and got what I thought was my perfect horse. I tried him a couple of times and he did everything I wanted. I am only a happy hacker and he is fantastic on roads etc, the only thing is he bucks going into canter. I didn't know when I bought him, it started about 8 weeks after I bought him (only really walked and trotted him for the first few weeks as I'm not a speed freak). To date in 18 months I have had two different back people out two different saddlers out, changed saddle three times, had a tooth out, not ridden him in over 5 weeks in case of an underlying problem, shoes on him shoes off him, changed his bit, added a running martingale. My recent back person said he was sore so again rested him, period of another 4 weeks. The recent saddle man came out last week and apart from putting in some knee rolls in my saddle he said it was fine. I have spent another £300 to a lady in advance back in june to school my horse only came twice and she rode in walk listening to music on her phone then never turned up again.
We had the ok to ride him so my daughter (13) tried riding him in the field on Sunday and he bucked her off five times the last two times was just in trot. I understand if he is in pain, but I have gone down all the routes I can think off, spent hundreds of pounds trying to sort, but every time my daughter rides she gets bucked off and it breaks her heart all she wants to do is have fun with her horse, and she can't. I really feel for her safety as well as feel we are not experienced enough to deal with this, I don't know if I'm asking for advice or whether anyone has been in the same boat or if really there is any hope in us rectifying this. Just wanted to add all of the changes we have done on the advice of 3 different instructors.
 
I would recommend you get a decent equine vet to do a lameness work up, back issues are often secondary pain to something else. Sometimes horses with sore backs are actually bi laterally lame behind (lame on both hind legs) so not obviously lame so just dismissed as having a bad back
Good Luck!
 
He bucked with all instructors, just want to add which I forgot to put in originally he doesn't buck all the times sometimes she can get him into canter and he is fine so no sequence to it at all.
 
its just very difficult to say without actually seeing it...
it could be behavioural (i.e. she only bucks with certain riders. it could be their riding styles, aids, etc), or it could be something wrong with her back...
i am sure u have already spent loads, but i think u need to be ascertain the cause one way or another...as i said, its almost impossible to say here
 
you need a full lameness work up. These symptoms are v common with hind limb lameness. My horse did the same ,again bought her passed a 5 stage vetting ,saw my own vet and physio who declared her sound but got her seen at Rossdales and found to have bilateral suspensory damage and secondary back pain. She had prob had this for ages before i got her and just worked through it. Please get a good vet to check her out.
 
No not had x rays done, I feel like a rubbish owner just thought he was young and unbalanced or behaviour, my current instructor is lovely she is going to take some videos of him on Fridays so maybe this is what she thinks we need to do next then x Ray.
Debsflo is your horse ok now? What did you do for it to become right? X
 
debsflo said:
you need a full lameness work up. These symptoms are v common with hind limb lameness. My horse did the same ,again bought her passed a 5 stage vetting ,saw my own vet and physio who declared her sound but got her seen at Rossdales and found to have bilateral suspensory damage and secondary back pain. She had prob had this for ages before i got her and just worked through it. Please get a good vet to check her out.
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Have seen this scenario more then once including with one of my own, places like Rossdales really know their stuff!
 
mine had surgery for psd on both hinds and shockwave therapy on her back then box rest and a programme of controlled exercise. Had surgery at Rossdales. If you go into vet section and search psd you will find loads of info and similar stories. My horse bunny hopped in canter ,not all the time and its only because she is so tolerant and put up with it until it got worse that we found out. I contacted her previous owne who had put it down to her being naughty. 10 years on she is doing fab at 21.
 
maxine1985 said:
I would recommend you get a decent equine vet to do a lameness work up, back issues are often secondary pain to something else. Sometimes horses with sore backs are actually bi laterally lame behind (lame on both hind legs) so not obviously lame so just dismissed as having a bad back
Good Luck!
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100 % spot on.
 
Once you know for certain that your horse isn't in pain then I would suggest you lift up out of saddle when you ask for canter.
When he bucks does he just buck the once or keep going until he gets rider off?
 
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