horse is sooo lazy!!!

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as the title says, my ex racers are soooo lazy, and this leads to me getting really angry!! i dont ever show my anger towards them, becasue they would not kniow what they had done wrong, its just really irritating. but they are constantly lazy!! one is a 16.2 TB and when hacking with a 14.2 cob the other day we could not keep up!! its not just hacking in the school they are both so slow and lazy it drives me insane. i have tried changing their feed and it made little difference, any suggestions to liven them up a bit??
 
What are they like when you take them out to parties? Bodey can be quite lazy at home and out hacking but when I take him out (especially SJing) he is a different horse. So the energy is there, it’s just when he chooses to use it! I say get them out and about????
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My WB can be hard work if he isn't in the mood to work. He is great out hacking though. So for school work a nice pair of spurs, not all the time just now and again. Works with my boy.
 
Wow, this has to be an unusual complaint! I reckon well done that they're so relaxed, for starters! Agree with JoBo, my lad was one lazy horse until he got old enough to start going places, hacking long distance or in new places and fun rides. When his life got more exciting, so did he (in a good way). We're still not great in the school but that's the only time I need to use my legs at all now, really! (At the moment I'm just getting back on after a knee injury, he's so forward going that I can just sit there and we are hacking out quite happily. Not been in the school yet as using my leg still hurts a bit!)
 
Without being rude but if they're both like it, do you have lessons to see if there's something in your riding you can change? I had a Welsh sec D and I was making him lazy with the way I rode - always nagging at him so he just got dead to the leg. Finally got a good instructor who pointed it out to me and taught me how to get him going off the leg.
 
that just what i thought chestnut cob,, but yep ive had a dressage instructor (not mine i am the most hopless thing at dressage EVER!) to ride them and he said they are just a pair of lazy plods!! he also suggested going on long hacks/taking them out places which i think i will try,, but i was just after something i could do at home to get them to perk up?
 
My trainer told me that some top riders get their horses to go off the leg by literally asking once and then blasting round the school a few times. I daren't try it on mine..might not be seen for a week!!
 
Would you like to swop for mine for a wee while, I can't get mine to slow down, not a brakes issue, she's just super fast and not in the least bit lazy, even on the way out.

Oats sound like they might work.
 
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