Becca2403
Active Member
I have 3 geldings, 2 of which are really good to hack out (minus some scary yellow objects and the odd falling leaf spooking them), they are excellent with gates, my 16year old gelding is used as a nanny horse, is used to a steam train passing within 3 feet of us, and doesn't blink an eye in the heaviest of traffic. I backed and broke him myself, and taught him everything he knows, and yet I have hit a roadblock with my new gelding. He's 7, was backed at 4, turned away until 6 months ago :-0 (shocker I know), and then I bought him last month. He is an avid napper, its his favourite hobby on a hack, which I can deal with, as we are always in company. But I cannot get him near enough to a gate to open it. When I do, as soon as I go to grab the handle, he backs up at speed, regardless of what is behind us (a drop, another horse, a tree, a lake) and spins. I cannot figure him out. He is happy for me to do them on foot, and he is happy to go through them when someone else opens them, he even lets me push them shut, just not OPEN them!
Help?
Help?