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Thanks to everyone with constructive and helpful comments regarding catching friends wayward gelding.
The update for today is that he is being buddied up with gentle gelding and this afternnoon everyone has arranged to bring their horses in with the hope that he will follow new buddy to stable block.The vet is being called for some more acp .He is very content knee deep in grass munching his face off and not at all bothered by saddle .
He has been on restricted grazing and has been in at night with a few others for hands on and think hes just decided he want to live out with the others 24/7 which is what he did in his previous home.
He is up for sale if anyone wants a project horse.New owner realises her riding skills to not match his abilities.
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Glad you are (almost) there! It was intriguing reading people's views. I wasn't concerned about the saddle scaring the horse at all it clearly wasn't bothered, it seemed it just wanted to stay in the field and the worst that can happen is the saddle gets broken. My main concern is the fence/gate jumping - what is it with people's horses that do this?? Mine won't even hop a 2'6/2'9 electric tape - they have respect! I blame these loose jumping competitions myself!!
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Thanks for the update. I didn't reply on the previous thread but I looked to guesstimate how far away from me you are in case I could help. I have a pony who behaves in a similar fashion - but he can't bear to be by himself. This was a useful discovery as we can now catch him but unfortunately we discovered it when he went over a five bar gate and both railway level crossing barriers when they were down!

Hope your friend has better luck this afternoon with him.

I have to say I "lost" my pony one day with full tack on, I'd just tied him up using a normal lead rope to a head collar over his bridle and was going to take his saddle off when he pulled back and the binder twine broke. So there he was, quite happy to be out belting around complete with saddle, bridle and headcollar. It took some hours before I could catch everything else and take them out of sight and he could be caught again.
 
Oh good sounds like it's going to be a good outcome. Hopefully it will go on to have a great future BSJA. I was out hunting when one got 'lost' in a couple of hundred acres of parkland. The rider had pulled the bridle off in the fall but it spent three days in the park in the rest of it's tack. Whoops!
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Glad you are (almost) there! It was intriguing reading people's views. I wasn't concerned about the saddle scaring the horse at all it clearly wasn't bothered, it seemed it just wanted to stay in the field and the worst that can happen is the saddle gets broken. My main concern is the fence/gate jumping - what is it with people's horses that do this?? Mine won't even hop a 2'6/2'9 electric tape - they have respect! I blame these loose jumping competitions myself!!
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LadyT - mine is 13.3, I cornered him by the 4' sheep hurdles one day, he was standing parallel to them and when he realised he would have to knock me down running past or be caught he just sort of pinged over them. Never seen anything like it in my life. It's not as though he's a youngster either - he's in his twenties. We have to separate him from the others and then wait for him to decide that he can be caught and he won't be beaten up. He never has been by us but you can watch his face to see if it's worth holding the headcollar out - that's the other thing you can ONLY put a head collar on him if you are standing at his left shoulder, you offer it out towards his nose and he will turn his head, put it in the noseband and then stick his nose forward so that it can't fall off while you do it up. I watched my husband trying to put a headcollar on him one day and nearly fell over laughing. He was standing in front of the pony's head and the pony kept sidling round to his side and my husband would walk to the front again and the pony would sort of sigh and move to his side and off they'd go again. Pony obviously thought he was a complete idiot.

Still, he's greatly improved from when we bought him and you had to take the bridle to pieces to get it on!
 
A friend of mine once made all the local papers as they had been to the beach for the day, horses had been ridden all day and worked hard they got back tied upto the lorry and rugged and booted up to travel home. Friends generally very sensible older horse pulled back took the tie ring out the side of the lorry and galloped off rugged up complete with travel boots paddled out into the estuary and proceeded to swim off towards open sea, It took life boats and swimmers to steer it round and send it back towards shore.
You cant take precautions against everything and your friends horse has obviously decided being knee deep in nice grass is preferable to being stabled and worked!
Good luck catching it however it happens in the end.
 
Horses are just daft! That is the conclusion i have drawn. Mine has 'threatened' on occasion to jump the gate when he's broken off being tied etc but he's never done it. We've had ponies that just were sods to be caught for no other reason that they would quite prefer to stay in the green field than do some work - funny they were much easier to catch in the winter!!! Thankfully now my horse is FAR too greedy, he just can't help himself, although you have to get a headcollar on quick and rope round his nose or he's off with you 'skiing' behind! Still, he's great and i wouldn't change him for the world. Get his tack on he has manners of a saint!
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He is up for sale if anyone wants a project horse.New owner realises her riding skills to not match his abilities.
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LOL - will the saddle be included in the price?
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lol, bet he's had the time of his life!! hope he captured before too long and de-saddled. good luck to your friend with selling him, hope he finds a lovely new home with high walls!
 
Oh, you didn't shoot him then?
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I just read the other thread and was LOLing by the end of it. You posted something along the lines of 'a horse has got away with his saddle on, it has slipped round and he is evading captuure. He is a bit of a b*gger, he is taking the p*ss and he is enjoying some lush grass'. The advice ranged from shoot it to take it to a psychiatrist!
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We are about to start backing our youngster, I am not sure I'll post for advice in a crisis as I don't want to shoot him...
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Good luck! PS JM07 - I know you were joking...
 
Good luck with the re-capture!!
I haven't read every post in your original thread but I do sympathise with your friend. I once helped a novice friend with her 4 y.o. 17.2hh Shire x. He was capable of some 'extreme' behaviour - mostly because he was a baby in novice hands. Once he galloped off down the field with a five bar gate dangling from his head collar as the farrier had tied him directly to the gate that the horse managed to lift straight off its hinges!
It took a while to catch him but luckily we did while many people were saying the best thing for him is the bullet.
He ended up going away to be professionally schooled and became an excellent hunter and 12 years later he still is hunting as far as I know.
I really hope your friend's horse has a similar happy ending.
 
Couldn't you just put in his advert 'Buyer to Catch' 'Comes with saddle*'
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*Literaly!

Good luck - Look forward to hearing how you get on.

Ps - I would of killed him, not because it was needed, I would of lasted about two hours(?) on a good day and lost my patience and ran out of swear words
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Little oinker.
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Good luck - he sounds like a right cheeky little bugger!!

I think we all need to see a picture of him if his owner doesn't mind.....just to put a face to the reputation !!
 
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