How to stop a really nasty buck!!

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Just some thoughts please. I have a dear little pony which unfortunately has a really bad nap in her! She's a typical naughty pony really, although can be angelic. She can buck when excited or nappy and I mean REALLY buck..... think handstands!!

She was shown last year and nine times out of ten was 100%, but then on another day she'd flip out!!

All her checks re saddle/back/teeth have been checked and she's a sweety to handle....a very small adult friend of mine has offered to ride her this year to keep her weight down, but I would really like some guidance tips for her to work with.

It's a shame to keep her just as a pet, and would like the chance to use her for MY children, rather tan waiting until she's old and knackered to use her for the Grandchildren!!
 
that's the trouble when they're so small and quick!! She's so blinkin agile!!

Thank god for small brave riders!!

It is my aim this year to bomb proof her......turn her into a pony the RDA would be proud of!!LOL
 
I cured my really bad bucker by pulling her up immediately and doing a few very tight circles every time she so much as thought about it. Worked a treat.
 
OK, I'll get her to start on that when she tries her.

Just a thought really, but I'm positive this stems from her lack of self confidence. She latches on really quickly to other horses.....even to the point of if she travels in the lorry with something else to a show, she whinnies constantly to them and then starts napping and then her bad behaviour starts.

Any tips on working on this??

I should point out she's a pure welsh B, only 12hh, 9 year old.
 
Someone on here posted a youtube of an Aussie trainer demonstrating the one-rein-stop some time back. When understood by rider and mount, it works every time. The youtube video show a bucking horse quickly and easily prevented from bucking, though he tries it again and again. The rider just starts the one-rein-stop maneuvre and it stops the horse in it's tracks. Can't remember who it was but if you put a post up asking about it, someone will know!
 
Box_Of_Frogs said:
Someone on here posted a youtube of an Aussie trainer demonstrating the one-rein-stop some time back. When understood by rider and mount, it works every time. The youtube video show a bucking horse quickly and easily prevented from bucking, though he tries it again and again. The rider just starts the one-rein-stop maneuvre and it stops the horse in it's tracks. Can't remember who it was but if you put a post up asking about it, someone will know!
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Clinton Anderson ?
 
Box_Of_Frogs said:
Someone on here posted a youtube of an Aussie trainer demonstrating the one-rein-stop some time back. When understood by rider and mount, it works every time. The youtube video show a bucking horse quickly and easily prevented from bucking, though he tries it again and again. The rider just starts the one-rein-stop maneuvre and it stops the horse in it's tracks. Can't remember who it was but if you put a post up asking about it, someone will know!
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that will be John O'Leary at HorseProblems Autralia x
 
It's not exactly a cure but I had a loan horse who had a really evil buck, head between her legs and like you say almost a handstand type of buck, even my instructor couldn't sit out a buck from her.

In the end my instructor just told me to trot her in a fairly tight figure of eight with leg on, the turning and change of direction took up all her focus.

I wish the "buckstop" existed then as she was a nightmare.
 
Might be worth having a thermal imaging scan done just to be sure there are no 'hot spots' regarding her mouth/poll/neck/back etc.

As regards the being clingy to other horses. Lots of groundwork, with you moving her feet, forwards, backwards and sideways. Ask her to negotiate an L shape set up using 4 jump poles both forwards and backwards, one step at a time so you are showing her that you have control of her feet. This sort of work causes the horse to look on you as an effective leader in whom they can have confidence and trust, thus leading to them being less reliant one another horse. May well also help in reducing the bucking issue

Good luck
 
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