Grrr one of those days............

[jenbleep]

........where you and your horse just does not work together

I rode F tonight.....thought I'd take him for a hack as the school at his yard is so pants

however F and me haven't had the best of hacks........whenever he goes out he is very tense, jogs, spooks and humps his back (doesn't actually buck thank god

)

so took him up on the common, fair enough he hasn't been up there yet, but he was a nightmare

he grew about 2 hands but bunched up like a little pony - ready to explode at any point

I tried to keep calm, and do all the things that i read on here - make him walk sideways, keep your leg on, little circles etc but in the end we just wound each other up.

Thought i'd go back and walk him around the school, but he was just as bad in there

i feel like all my hard work that i have out in over the last year is going to be undone - i hate riding in that school - it is deep, stoney and on a slope

and it makes me unbalanced and I can't feel i can ride properly, so there is no hope trying to get him working properly

maybe I need time to settle in as well??

I rode for an hour and we did no decent work at all - he was still tense, as was I, and his neck was stiff stiff and wrinkly when i got off

Grrrrrrrr I hate days like this!!

makes me feel that all the money i spend on lessons is a waste of money and I should take up card making or something

I need to keep going out on hacks with him, but I don't know if i can keep my cool when he is being like that

Please tell me I am not the only person who feels this way!!

 

[Keltic]

Nope your not alone!!!! somedays i feel like im riding like ive never sat on a horse! and somedays its like we are one and mentally connected!!

 

[katie_southwest]

Your not alone, I am having braking problems with my mare and spooky/jogging issues too...

 

[jenbleep]

Just that I feel like I have improved so much over the last year.....but then get a day like today and it all goes to pot! I was tipping forwards, my lower legs were swinging all over the place and I was very tense, and so was he.

mmm I bet it's going to be like this for a while yet..........

 

[Damnation]

It happens to everyone! Have you tried lunging him in the school over some poles to get him relaxed and then hacking him so he doesn't have an edge to his energy anymore?
I'm sure with perseverence you will be back to what you were! It would be boring and just too easy if they behaved all the time

 

[bex1984]

awww jen don't be so hard on yourself. I can't ever ride but every so often I have days when we just cannot canter - I struggle to get him in to canter in the first place and if and when we do canter I'm all over the place, legs flailing, arms flapping, bouncing about, losing my stirrups...

And from the posts on here lately it would seem like everyone's horses have taken up jogging recently - even Murphy (and he's laaaazy!)

Get yourself some rescue remedy to help chill you out, and then he'll probably relax a bit. Anyway: tomorrow is a new day

 

[jenbleep]

thanks both - you're right bex, tomorrow is a new day, and he would have probably forgotten about it...........i hope

I have noticed lots of posts this week about jogging! it's sooooo annoying

Izzi I'm lungeing him tomorrow.......then riding Wednesday so I think lungeing over poles is in order

 

[Parkranger]

One thing I will say is that a good school really is important - it's hard to improve if you and your horse are unbalanced!

 

[jenbleep]

I am sooooo sad that his owner decided to move him to a place with a crap school......she was like 'it's alright' but I'm telling you it is on a slope and stoney!! She has no idea

I know that I can school out hacking and I would on a horse that isn't so tightly wound lol - better get used to it

Luckily there is a school across the road that i can use but can only afford to use it about once a week

still at least theres that - and it is level and has a nice surface lol