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...because I'm ill and bored and have slept far too much of today to get to sleep now....

No right or wrong answer, just genuinely curious given the varied response in other post...

Would you wear a BP on something that regularly behaved like this??
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No physical problems at all - horse just has a very gymnastic way of expressing herself when things are all a bit too exciting for her.... she is improving but has always had a phenomenal buck ever since she was a baby. I am told she gets it from her grandfather...
 
if i had one of those fancy inflatable body suit protector things I would - but i probably wouldn't wear on - i find them dead restrictive and when they throw shapes i find I can't sit so well,
however - i would always insist anyone I was teaching did if I knew there horse would do this - as I can make the decision with my own body - but would not risk anyone elses - no way hosay...
 
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Hell yes, I don’t bounce like I use to! I wear a BP on this (and OMG it’s over my jacket, sin of all sins)!
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Not at all!! Though mine would look rather interesting over my tweed - its purple!
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And just to show she can work nicely and keep her legs on the ground...
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she looks angry when she bucks, are you really sure about the physical problem?

Would not need the body protector as would not get on.
Ginn you are a very brave person.
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Ginn......she isn't by any chance a part bred arab with the prefix that starts with an A???

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Nope, ironically its the supposedly "level headed" ID genes that it stems from, probably not helped by the sharp tb genes from her sires side of the family
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She certainly keeps me on my toes but its one of the many reasons I love her!
 
What has a BP got to do with the horses behaviour? TBH I would go with Kerrii on this one.... There is a point where isnt not excitement IMO.
My boy likes to throw in large bucks on occasions and I ride him with a BP (yes over a jacket for WH! I know - outrage).

I also agree with alot of people - I simply wouldnt get it on since the horse has got form.

And as I said before - if u cant sit a buck with a BP on, how exactly would be be able to XC in it? I think to wear or not wear a BP isnt the issue here tho, I think your horse needs checked out and then needs a good education.
 
I wouldn't wear a BP because I wouldn't be anywhere near it
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I remember seeing something like this at burrows and judging by your 3rd photo it probs was you - well sat you must have superglue jodhpurs!!!

I've worn my purple BP over tweed, even did it in a WH class and the steward just smiled at me
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ETA has she got a mouth full of grass in the ditch photo or is it just me
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Probably not to be honest as my horse does similar to yours but it doesn't make me feel the need to wear a bp. But then again I'm probably barmy as i've jumped her cross country, bareback without a bp before - so..
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she looks angry when she bucks, are you really sure about the physical problem?

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Yep, have had numerous people see her do it and always get the same response - I have made too many excuses for her and have let her get away with murder at times and so she occasionally sticks two fingers up at me either becuase she doesn't want to do something/spooked or because her little brain cannot cope with the infomation passing through it as it is just sooo exciting!! Its a nappy evasion which is now being firmly stamped on with the help of a brilliant instructor (having made little progress with previous one) but she has always and will always be a little madam with a stonking buck!! That said, she hardly ever (I can think of only one occasion) bucks out hacking and now only does it in the school when she sees either the cat or ducks appear in the hedge so it is improving. She also never does it maliciously and there is never any intention of dumping the rider - its like the legs act before the brain engages....
 
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I wouldn't wear a BP because I wouldn't be anywhere near it
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I remember seeing something like this at burrows and judging by your 3rd photo it probs was you - well sat you must have superglue jodhpurs!!!

I've worn my purple BP over tweed, even did it in a WH class and the steward just smiled at me
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ETA has she got a mouth full of grass in the ditch photo or is it just me
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Yes, that most likely was me - to be fair to her Burrows was her first and second ridden outings and it was all very scary/exciting.

And yes, she probably does have a mouthful of grass in the ditch pic
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What has a BP got to do with the horses behaviour?

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Well that was the point of the question in my OP...

I know my horse and exactly what she is capeable of and my my choice based on those judgements. I was just interested to see what other people thought and if horse behaviour (in general, not specific to mine) altered their choice on whether to wear one.

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And as I said before - if u cant sit a buck with a BP on, how exactly would be be able to XC in it? I think to wear or not wear a BP isnt the issue here tho, I think your horse needs checked out and then needs a good education.

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Never said I couldn't sit a buck with a BP on - that was your assumption
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As has been said, horse has been well and truely checked, it is very much just something she finds too easy to do. Yes, much of the issue is an education one, she is a young, sensitive, sharp mare who can buck when she feels it a suitable opportunity. BUT she is the most fantastic hack, forward, confident and not even remotely nappy, infact I can only think of one occasion in what must be hundreds of hacks where she has bucked and that followed rather a lot of galloping in company, up and down the same stretch a few times... I can count on 2 hands the amount of times she's been ridden away from home and yes, on each of those occasions she has at some point had a buck but has also settled afterwards and done some nice, calm work. Why she has an objection to working in the school is another matter again - a combination of an instructor who made things rather uncomfortable, a rider who has a complex anyway about riding in an arena, a surface which isn't ideal and lots of scary things in the hedge - she is 5, she is improving, and 99% of the time there is no hint of a buck - when she throws one it is usually for a reason, even though that reason is sometimes trying to take the piss which new instructor is helping knock on the head.

Maybe I should define "Regularly" as this seems to be a confusing factor: hacking - almost never; new places - usually, at some point, she will have a "moment"; schooling maybe once or twice a month and only ever a handful of bucks when she does.

ETA: In the field she LOVES to muck around and that always includes some decent bucks! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmgnJHfwP94
 
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Probably not to be honest as my horse does similar to yours but it doesn't make me feel the need to wear a bp. But then again I'm probably barmy as i've jumped her cross country, bareback without a bp before - so..
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Yay! Someone to share the asylum with
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Seriously though, nice to know I am not alone.
 
Ginn-growing up my mate had a pony who couldn't be ridden with all 4 feet on the floor. She was a sod. She was checked from top to bottom and nothing found to be wrong.
I lost count of the amount of times we went hunting together only for her to be sent off the field! Or to shows where people would point and stare. The mare just bucked because she wanted to buck.
I know its not common, or excepted but sometimes it 'just is'.
On the plus point-no one ever wanted to ride her mare so she was left in peace.
 
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Yay! Someone to share the asylum with
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Seriously though, nice to know I am not alone.

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Yay, we can be mad together
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I have in similar circumstances and most definately would again. It would make me feel a bit braver in dealing with the problem.

Well done for sitting through all that!
 
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Probably not to be honest as my horse does similar to yours but it doesn't make me feel the need to wear a bp. But then again I'm probably barmy as i've jumped her cross country, bareback without a bp before - so..
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Yay! Someone to share the asylum with
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Seriously though, nice to know I am not alone.

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he he my wee highland is in the same bucks to be a bitch, and when having an amazingly great time out riding
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nothing wrong with her. so ur not alone
 
QR....before i read the other answers i would say no....only because i find it easier to sit to horses like this without a BP on- i feel that i can 'move' more with the horse...don't envy you though, can't be pleasant if it regulalry does it, would get on my nerves!
 
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