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I have a competition horse. He is now 13 and i have had him for 2 years. He is difficult, opinionated, unpredictable and bloody brilliant. He is so talented yet so frustrating. Some days I am on cloud 9 and others so low. I paid a pittence for him and yet sometimes think i was robbed. He has taught me so much, shown up my riding weaknesses like no other and yet made me so proud and so low all within a few days. I suppose my point of the post is: Anyone else out there with the same sort of horse? or is it just me? here he is, FLY BOY.
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I have a horse just like yours (he even looks similar) he is by far the most talented horse ive sat on, i bought him for nearly nothing to hunt and hack.. he did that brilliantly then i thought i would do a bit of schooling with him and my god i thought i was going to be pinged into the sky his medium trot was so big! He is so powerful over the jumps he somtimes scares himself (not to mention me)

On the flip side he weaves like nothing else, is covered in battle wounds, he makes a noise that sounds like hog and is incredibly sharp.

I love him to bits and would never sell him but i have had to put him out on loan as he is just far to powerful for me.
 
i've got one like that. he could jump anything, was olympic potential in germany as a 5 year old, now gets round a 1.05 on a good day. on a bad day he'll jack it within the first 4 fences. when he's going well he's the best horse i've ridden and to buy another like him but with a good brain would require a lottery win but i've had some serious lows with him and still continue to have them now. in fact he is advertised but i've already decided he's staying partly because i love him so much and he's behaving at the moment and partly because he is unsellable
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i wish i'd never seen him but now i couldn't let him go
 
Yep got one here - ex intermediate eventer who fell into the wrong hands. Was a plank of wood when I got him, and afer neary two years of tending to his every need and being bucked off, bronked off and sitting in the stable crying for hours has finally let the barriers down. For us it was a combination of me being the only one to handle him, finding out that he has been horrifically beaten both around a course of fences and when he slips - due to the power he puts down, and having an eventfull couple of days- he had a really bad trip - he went down a pot hole and it really shook him - but it was the first time he had not "gone balistic" after making a mistake - i jumped off him and basically made a fuss of him - he had really hurt his neck and leg - and it really was not his fault. That was the moment things started to change.

Last week we were working into a contact, he was elevated and there was no stopping us. We even jumped a small fence - miricale in its self and there was no bronking, no bucking and no force. Since then we have gone from strength to stength and finally he appears to want to work. The only downside is - he will not let any of my other horses anywhere near me - he runs them all off now.

Dont give up - he needs you more than you need him - find a teacher to trust in -one that understands the needs of the horse not a "pretty teacher"
 
OMG! I thought I was the only one!! I brought a horse like this, he is amazing but the most awkard and tense horse ever, I have had him for about 9 months now and he loves & trusts me now, calls for me and folows me everywhere, he came from Ireland and was supposed to have hunted and SJ'd but he now gets really tense and throws himself around...but ... I took him for a ride on the South Downs the other day (with my heart in my mouth) he was BRILL he loved it, didn't put a foot wrong and the power in him was amazing - god I love that horse!! but he is a pain
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Yep, but unfortunately for me, mine has the attitude without the talent!! Ha ha !! Love her really.
Yours looks lovely though, you must be very proud of him.
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