I Did It!! I Did It!! I Did It!!!!

Ravenwood

Ravenwood

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Loading the Unloadable - final update!

I am ecstatic, I am floating and grinning from ear to ear.

Today I loaded up my horse on my own and drove her to my jumping lesson. Not only that, we had a fantastic lesson, she was absolutely brilliant, tackling bounces, canter poles between jumps and a course of four.

Even better - she went back in the box first time to go home!

What more can I ask. Those weeks and weeks of patience and practise have paid off.



PS Will have to practise my reversing, driving a long wheel base pick up truck to tow is v difficult to meanouvre, it kept jackknifing.
 
WOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!

SO SO pleased for you
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How did you manage that ? My one mare always takes a while to load but has excelled herself today (about 3 1/2 hrs!!)
I collected her from my sisters where she had been a loan horse and took her to the vets enroute to the stud and horror of horrors I just could not get her back in We tried everything. I eventually rang my husband who drove the hours drive to come and help and just as he got ther she walked up the ramp and in !!! I didn't know whether to take her to the stud or straight to potters after that (she;s at the stud though she may have to stay there for life !)
 
Well, it has taken about 6 weeks. My mare was a nightmare to load and travel, the final straw being when she really flipped on the ramp, rearing, falling over, me crying, people around me taking over (it was now pitch black) using a shank chain and beating her trying to load her using car headlights.........you get the picture.

So after about a month after that, I started by opening both ramps and pulling across the partition and walking her straight through just once everyday, then I started feeding her in it each morning again with the trailer as an open walkway. Then I progressed to putting up one ramp and putting it straight down again, then another or putting up the breech strap etc. When I got to putting up both ramps she really flipped again, so had to go back a few steps. Then I bit the bullet and with a friend we loaded her with her stablemate, shut the ramps and drove her round the block really slowly with me driving behind to watch and shouting "Good Girl" out of the window! We then drove her around the block on her own about half a dozen times, this is literally less than 10 minutes travelling and I admit that although she never really relaxed she was still going in first time. And finally today I took the plunge and did it on my own.
 
How horrid for you My mare just puts herself into reverse at high speed yanking my arm & shoulder Putting a lunge whip on her really made her kick as did lunge lines Hopefully she will be in foal when she returns so I won't takle it then but I will follow your example in time. Many thanks Marion
 
PF - LOL - Not too convinced about Parelli - although don't know enough about it to comment - I think patience, kindness and firmness usually gets you the result in the end.
 
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