almrc
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Does anyones horses react so badly to a certain type of weather (wind/rain) that you dont ride them in it?
Horses reacting to weather
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NicoleS_007
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Mine used to nap when it rained, one minute id be cantering the next he'd stop dead and walk backwards and if he went forwards he'd buck! So i avoided it for ages but had to adress the matter as if it rains at a comp it woulnd work so well!! But now he will do anything in the rain even jump 
I avoid snow! You no when it snows but doesnt lie, mine hates it!
I avoid snow! You no when it snows but doesnt lie, mine hates it!Shay
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My daughter's really laid back cob started to nap with her in the school last year. Not badly - but totally out of character for him. He wouldn't go forward and was pulling toward the gate making it quite clear he had had enough and wanted to go in now thank you.
We'd done enough so I told her to cool him out and bring him in rather than get into a fight. As I turned to leave her without warning the heavans opened and a most horrendous hail storm began. Honestly there has been no advance warning at all. All thoughts of cooling off abnadodned we raced him back to the stables and she rode him straight in to get out of the hail as quickly as possible. We huddled together all three of us, completely unable to get out of his stable to put his tack away - I have never seen anything like it and I grew up in South Africa where you can get some hailstorms!
Bless him he knew it was going to happen and did his horsey best to tell us we needed to get inside now and we didn't listen to him. If he ever does it again I hope I will have the sense to think twice about what he might be trying to say! (Although I'm not certain I could have guessed that even if I had thought about it!)
We'd done enough so I told her to cool him out and bring him in rather than get into a fight. As I turned to leave her without warning the heavans opened and a most horrendous hail storm began. Honestly there has been no advance warning at all. All thoughts of cooling off abnadodned we raced him back to the stables and she rode him straight in to get out of the hail as quickly as possible. We huddled together all three of us, completely unable to get out of his stable to put his tack away - I have never seen anything like it and I grew up in South Africa where you can get some hailstorms!
Bless him he knew it was going to happen and did his horsey best to tell us we needed to get inside now and we didn't listen to him. If he ever does it again I hope I will have the sense to think twice about what he might be trying to say! (Although I'm not certain I could have guessed that even if I had thought about it!)
almrc
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ahh bless him! My friend was long reining her horse recently and it was very foggy, couldnt see from the top end to the bottom. Once in the bottom corner, her horse had a hissy fit and tanked off back to the top! Re took the horse back there as soon as fog went and was as good as gold!!!!