Feeling really bad!

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Oh goad do I feel bad! Gina (Ginagem) got on Bodey for the first time tonight and he bucked her off (boy was it a whopper). She really hurt herself and has busted her wrist.

I’m going to wait and see what my instructor says tomorrow but I really hope I haven’t taken on more then I can cope with. Blackie was just so easy but Bodey is just more well I suppose the word is, forward going and baby like (he’s 3.5 years old).

Maybe we should have given him more time but we have been doing the whole weight in the stirrup and the leaning over, and he has been fine with that. He was sat on a few times from the place we brought him from.

I really do love him so much already though.

I hope Gina doesn’t mind me posting this and I don’t want a whole debate on ‘inexperienced people owning youngsters’.

Just a bit of friendly support and advise please?
 
Things like this happen, its horse unpredictable. hope it all works out for you, i dont think you are inexperienced at all. You realised what might have been the cause and i suppose you can just take it a little slower with him, But someone else might have a better suggestion??
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These things happen, dont be too dis-heartended. Take him back a couple of steps- go to just leaning over, jumping up and down next to him and re-establish his confidence. If Gina doesnt want to get on him again maybe ask the people who you bought him off if they'd sit on?
Good luck!!
 
Stick in there! Its just a bad day... Happens to us all...the difference between [ QUOTE ]
‘inexperienced people owning youngsters’

[/ QUOTE ] and Experienced is experienced keep on going till its right.
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Thank you all for your kind words. I just wished it had been me instead of her, I feel so bad because I asked her to get on for the first time for me rather then having the bottle to do it myself (but she is a better rider then me).

Also she has a jumping lesson booked on Gem tomorrow, so it looks like I might be doing that one then.

Oh horses, so many highs but then so many lows!

In my heart though I do feel he is going to be great once he is going..........
 
Oh no! Sorry to hear that she has hurt herself. I was bucked off a baby in the summer and smashed my collarbone so I know how she must be feeling. You were very lucky with Blackie and Bodey is just a bit more sensitive perhaps. Do a bit more on the ground with him and try again with someone at his head reassuring him and leading him round. He will be brilliant but perhaps he just needs lots of time and reassurance. Good luck with him - it will all come right honest!
 
I had a similar experience when after Sprite was backed. Despite me having ridden her at the breaking yard, she still rodeo bronked and chucked me on the ground when I got her back home. We discovered the problem with her was that she had been ridden in an elasticated girth at the breaking yard, whilst I had put her in a normal rigid girth. Once we changed to an elasticated girth she was fine!

Little things like that can make a huge difference to a youngster - I hope you find a similar simple solution for Bodey.
 
Hmm, good point. We are using a Wintec girth were I believe they used a leather girth? Interesting.

To be honest though I think it may have just taken him by surprise. Afterwards he just stopped and looked at Gina with his puppy dog eyes. He didn’t even attempt to run any where.
 
I haven't read the other replies, so I apologise if I am repeating anyone.

When I first brought Grace home I was worried that I didn't know enough to reback a youngster as I had never done it before. But, I gave it my best shot and she is now going beautifully. So I would not worry about feeling you have taken too much on, I think everyone feels like that when it is something new.

The first few times I sat on Grace we had a few fireworks. After all, even though she is 5 she was only backed at 4 and then given a full 12 months off due to personal reasons from her owner. When I got on her she bucked, plunged, shied and spun, but I took it really slowly and feel I am now seeing the results three months later.

I started by lunging her and getting her responding to the voice aids. Then, after about a week of this, I started putting weight in the stirrup, bouncing up and down at the side of her so I could eventually get on off the ground (now do every time and she is fabulous). A few days of this then progressed to me leaning over, and the day I leant over I also got on and sat up slowly.

There was always someone there to walk her around for me, and this is all we did for another week. Walking around on the lunge line, incorporating a few trots. Then I progressed to getting on her with someone by her head and then walked off on my own.

Someone on here said something very poignant to me when I first got on Grace... walking gives them too much time to find scary things, so get on and go!

Sorry for the long post... it's just I have been there very recently!
 
It's a shame your friend broke her wrist, but anybody can fall off anything. Both my sister and my foster daughter (both experienced riders) fell off our 14.3 super safe cob, sister because horse decided she didn't like a piece of carpet by the road and dropped her shoulder and skipped, FD because she asked for canter longer than the mare wanted to and bucked her off. The mare was in her early twenties at the time! These things happen, if we weren't prepared for things to happen we'd ride bikes.
 
Keep him attached to the lunge next time, that way you can turn him and he physically cant put a big un in! But go back a few stages and work slowly again, it WILL come in time, you are doing a great job
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