Potato!
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Have you ever had experience with a horse that throws himself on the floor cause he was having a strop both on the lunge and under saddle on the lunge.
All checks carried out. It's defiantly a strop. He was being a bit nappy and as he was not allowed to go back to the yard and he just fell on the floor. He got up checked him ( he was ok) and carried on. I got on him whilst still on the lunge and he had another little strop then all of a sudden he dropped his head stamped his foot rolled his eyes and dropped to the ground, I jumped off before he rolled on me. I got on and got after him but every time he backed off and tried to put his head down I pulled him up and kicked him on to get him going forwards. After 3 more attempts to drop he started to work.
Don't know I've never known a horse do this but. My friend who was helping me thinks he's learnt that by throwing him on the floor he gets out of doing what he doesn't want to do. She thinks its going to take a lot of work to get out of this habit as now he has done it under saddle it could be quite dangerous especially if he decides to do it on the hunting field.
Has anybody got any tips on how to stop him doing this before he damages himself or the saddle.
All checks carried out. It's defiantly a strop. He was being a bit nappy and as he was not allowed to go back to the yard and he just fell on the floor. He got up checked him ( he was ok) and carried on. I got on him whilst still on the lunge and he had another little strop then all of a sudden he dropped his head stamped his foot rolled his eyes and dropped to the ground, I jumped off before he rolled on me. I got on and got after him but every time he backed off and tried to put his head down I pulled him up and kicked him on to get him going forwards. After 3 more attempts to drop he started to work.
Don't know I've never known a horse do this but. My friend who was helping me thinks he's learnt that by throwing him on the floor he gets out of doing what he doesn't want to do. She thinks its going to take a lot of work to get out of this habit as now he has done it under saddle it could be quite dangerous especially if he decides to do it on the hunting field.
Has anybody got any tips on how to stop him doing this before he damages himself or the saddle.