Horse grinding his teeth while being schooled!!!

[Allover]

My horse does it occasionally. My dressage instructor recommended doing the above or putting in tooth paste in his mouth. He stopped doing it so I never got around to trying it. My wee horse is now back into work and started doing it again so I might give it a go.

Though do bear in mind that you are dealing with the symptom and not the cause so do try to find somethiing nice tasting if you do decide to go down this route.

 

[Perfect-Piaffe]

My dutch warmblood does this. I've had teeth, back, legs everything checked and nothing. He seems perfectly happy so I def don't think its pain! I put it down to concentration He doesnt realise he's doing it hehe Never had any problems as a result.

 

[PaddyCampbell15]

I have

Wonder if its a TB thing?! anyone got a different breed that does it too?

an ISH x WB who is constantly doing it. He is very strong and ride him in a loose ring cherry roller, infact he does it in any bit I ever tried him in. I notice he does it worse when I don’t let him have his own way

 

[whiteflower]

My horse with kissing spines used to do it when he was tight or when he was starting to become achy/pain. Stopped doing it once pain was dealt with

 

[Mule]

Yes. Saw an international dressage rider at a show quite recently rub saddle soap on her horses teeth before going into the ring, to mask the sound of it during her test. Her horse was a warmblood. I posted about it on here at the time but the thread ended up being removed. This is not something I'm recommending however, just to be clear!

She could have used something that would taste nicer 🤢

 

[Cortez]

She could have used something that would taste nicer 🤢

...or perhaps tried riding better so the horse didn't feel the need to display his stress?

 

[Mule]

...or perhaps tried riding better so the horse didn't feel the need to display his stress?

Ah, your no fun

 

[silv]

I was always under the impression it was a sign of stress. We were teaching my mare flying changes on Wednesday and she started grinding for a short while.
The only other time was when we got caught in a horrible, cold, windy rain shower out a hack which wasn't much fun and she was going sideways to avoid the worst of it in her face. She's Warmblood/TB by the way and extremely laid back most of the time.

 

[tristar]

i have one that does it usually when he is wanting to go faster than i want him too, and when is seems to be excited