ifandbutwhynot
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I've been set the task of reschooling my young ex racer on two rides a week...
Back in summer I was riding every day and she was jumping 2ft9 quite happily, with the occasional hurdle leap thrown in, but she wasn't too strong or hyper.
The obvious problem would be now I've got exams and I can only ride twice a week at most, my boss turns her out while I'm not there and I lunge her to get the excess energy out before I ride her (she's got one hell of a buck when she's fresh!) but now it's got to the point where she's so mad I can't jump a plain fence with her, she'll charge, duck out, buck, or at the least put half a metre between her and a fence. I've tried trotting her really slowly into a fence and she'll just crab sideways and jump it sideways, if I let her go she jumps far too early and ends up looking like she's going round Aintree.
Also, my boss is very strict on what I do with her and likes to threaten that I find another horse if I don't abide by him (aka trot circles for about half an hour and then start jumping, I don't agree with it but I get b******** if I don't do it...)
She will walk in an outline but as soon as you halt she throws her head up and runs backwards, and she only ever maintains a steady trot when my boss isn't around. Probably a rider problem, but I don't know what else to try. Anything I do to try and calm her down I get yelled at 'it's your ********** fault, she's a great horse you couldn't ride a beach donkey' 'so help me I'll get a proper jockey on her' ...
Any advice guys? Boss wants her sold as a competition horse, as soon as she's gone, I'm out of there.
Back in summer I was riding every day and she was jumping 2ft9 quite happily, with the occasional hurdle leap thrown in, but she wasn't too strong or hyper.
The obvious problem would be now I've got exams and I can only ride twice a week at most, my boss turns her out while I'm not there and I lunge her to get the excess energy out before I ride her (she's got one hell of a buck when she's fresh!) but now it's got to the point where she's so mad I can't jump a plain fence with her, she'll charge, duck out, buck, or at the least put half a metre between her and a fence. I've tried trotting her really slowly into a fence and she'll just crab sideways and jump it sideways, if I let her go she jumps far too early and ends up looking like she's going round Aintree.
Also, my boss is very strict on what I do with her and likes to threaten that I find another horse if I don't abide by him (aka trot circles for about half an hour and then start jumping, I don't agree with it but I get b******** if I don't do it...)
She will walk in an outline but as soon as you halt she throws her head up and runs backwards, and she only ever maintains a steady trot when my boss isn't around. Probably a rider problem, but I don't know what else to try. Anything I do to try and calm her down I get yelled at 'it's your ********** fault, she's a great horse you couldn't ride a beach donkey' 'so help me I'll get a proper jockey on her' ...
Any advice guys? Boss wants her sold as a competition horse, as soon as she's gone, I'm out of there.
