I have been fretting non-stop...

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Emcat

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I have grown up with horses all my life, but I just started to get serious when I was about 7. I am 18 now. I'v just started to get real serious about four years ago.

Starting about 2006, my mother was searching far and wide for a perfect little cute "at home" pony that I could mess around with, have fun with, have lessons on, and maybe even attend some shows. We had been looking for a while then my mom saw this pony out in a padock at the beach just standing by herself. We tried her, she was good and cute and we bought her.

We got her home and she was good and all, I fell of the first time I rode her but this was my fault because I trotted her bareback and bounced up her neck. She was good even though I hardly had no clue about riding (at least compared to now). She would sometimes bolt or occasionally spin, reach down to snatch some grass. She would crow-hop and kick just one leg out when adults would get on. She usauly only crow hopped at the canter. I wasn't that good of a rider and I cantered mainly in 2 pt with my reins way to tight, so when she would jerk her head down and drop one shoulder, I would come off.

Now I am 18. When I first got back in to riding her about the spring of 2013, I fell off. I had just gotten on and was getting my reins together, with her just standing there, she gave a little buck, and I came off. I got back on and made to gather my reins more quickly and keep her head up, and I was good.

Over the past 3 months, she has been HORRIFIC. Not just the little cute crow hop at the canter. As soon as I get on and ask her to move, she takes a few choppy steps and full out bucks, when I try to keep her head up and ask for her to move forward, she rears then bucks. The first time she did this I stayed on, but I banged my nose. After she does this a few times, she's usaully good. Last time I got on her, she did this. I lunged her first and everything. She got me off five times! People watching said she went flat out rodeo and had all 4 feet off the ground and ears pinned and looked as if she had springs in her legs. I was afraid to get back on so this other crazy chick (She has worked for some big time trainers and she teaches riding lessons) gave me the horse she was on (Cat) and said she would lunge the dickens out of the pony (Clara) for me because I insisted she couldn't go back to the barn behaving like that. She lunged Clara until Clara was a hot mess. Then she tried to get on (my exact words "do you want my helmet"(No, she said)) and Clara did the jumping thing. It looked really scary and the girl slid off and aggressively lunged her some more. Then the crazy chick got back on again. I hollered at her to do something I forgot (but always do) which was to pull Clara's nose to her toe and spin her around in tight circles. She did this and said it wasn't helping, but continued to try to ride. She said Clara offered to buck, but was too dead dog tired to do it. She walked Clara a little then stopped a long while to talk to someone. I kept saying to my self I'm going to get back on soon, but I haven't yet.

I'm not afraid to ride, just scared to ride that horse. I keep thinking I will get back on her once I have consistent groundwork for at least a week. It is already pretty much determined she is not hurting that she is just a bitch. I think I am going to attempt to work her like she is just a colt starting out. This problem has been bothering me ever since. I just want to have one ride on her then send her back to her trainer.
 
Even though you're 'determined she's not hurting' you are not a vet and do not have xray eyes - please please please get the vet out. For your sake and the horse's.

If the vet doesn't find anything, then get a saddle fitter.

Horses don't act this for no reason and they don't just decide to 'be a bitch' (nice phrasing). She's tried to tell you that something is bothering her for a while - she started out in little ways and then you ignored it, so now she's having to escalate her behaviour because you aren't listening to what she's trying to tell you!

Vet. Now. Don't get back on that horse until a vet has seen it. You can tell me all you like how you 'know' she's fine - you're not a vet.
 
I think Clara needs to see the vet before you lunge her like that again. You could be making an injury worse.
 
It's one of two things: she's in pain, or she knows she can get people off. Get a vet to check her out, and then get a good, quiet professional to ride her.
 
Is this serious?
If so the poor poor horse obviously has something wrong with her or is very misunderstood. For the sake of the horse I don't think you or anyone else should ride her until a vet has seen her.
 
I can understand why you'd be fretting. Keeping in mind that all we have to go on are your descriptions, it sounds to me like the mare is telling you there's something seriously wrong, and the "crazy chick" doesn't sound like she is competent to evaluate and address the situation. I think you need assistance from a professional whose first instinct isn't to blame the horse, or to use aggressive, stressful methods. Vet check first, and then a quiet, experienced trainer who uses sympathetic methods.
 
Thanks yall. My mom pressed on her back and said Clara was just being a butt and nothing is wrong. But we should have a vet out. And to add usually (the past couple of times) she does one or two good bucks in the begaining then she's good(esp if you pull her nose to your toe, dissingage her hind quarters, all that good stuff)
 
If this is not a school holiday wind-up, then you need to get the vet out to your poor pony as soon as possible. You seem to have fast forwarded 11 years from when you got her when you were 7 to now, when you're apparently 18; how has she behaved in the intervening years?
 
NO April fools! Believe it or not, this story is legit! One of my biggest regrets is that it wasn't caught on camera): I'm not really apt to reenact it lol. intact, none of my falls off this pony have been caught on camera...only one almost fall. She is known for acting naughty, but never anything this bad. She used to like the little pony things, like a cute little crow hop and put her head down and twist, the occasional bolt, we even heard her old trainer came off of her once! A person from her old barn said she threw them into a fence pretty good at a show. But she has never been this bad, flat out jumping and bucking before you even do anything.
 
Does sound like a wind up but if not...why haven't you had a vet check her? Or had back checked? (No your mum pressing her back doesn't count) she is obviously in pain somewhere. Also why would you describe a buck as cute...
 
Let's assume it's for real. Even if not, people who have experienced their horse's bucking getting worse over time may read this, so all replies will be of use to someone.

Sounds like pain. She bucked for adults when you were little. Now you're older and heavier (not necessarily overweight - but any healthy 18 year old will be heavier than a healthy 9 year old!); she is older and probably weaker (has she spent the past few years sitting in a field then?). She is now bucking more seriously/frequently when you get on. In whose professional opinion is she not hurting?


Also, you let someone lunge your horse "aggressively" and until she was "a hot mess"?


Emcat said:
I just want to have one ride on her then send her back to her trainer.
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Will the trainer take her back, given the horse was sold to you nearly a decade ago?
 
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