Is your horse different for other people?

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I just ask as I have a friend who wants to start riding coming up to ride my pony. Today was the first day she ever met Meg, and Meg decided that as the weather cooled a little and everyone else was getting hay and dinner that wasnt fair at all and she would rather not be being exercised. So she was very fresh going down to the school and napped twice, then once we got in she walked about 15 mins just forward no silliness and then when i asked for trot she took off doing a series of fly bucks. I turned the little bugger and she stopped but repeated her action in the same place (as I'd made her keep trotting) and then the third time she did it she leapt forward and did a nice big buck-the whole time my complete novice friend is watching with wide eyes! So after the third incident I told Meg in no uncertain terms to behave and trotted her another ten mins till we got a nice outline and steady pace. Amazingly my friend still said she wanted to ride so she mounted and we walked around for the next 15 or so minutes (I was leading Meg and she had a lunge rein on through the bit and over top of her head in that style) and she dopey and good as gold. We always say Meg adapts to her rider but she had a major case of this today! So sorry for the essay but I am wondering if any of your horses are like that! (maybe its cause shes welsh with attitude? :p)
 
Our pony us the same!! Can be a little bugger that bolts & rears with my daughter, everyone else hates riding him cos he's dead slow & really hard work!! The daughter loves a naughty pony though so I'm sure she makes him be a sod for her on purpose!!
 
No, this is sooooo true!

I ride, not brilliantly but happily at least, and my OH is a complete beginner (we're just starting to work on rising trot where the rises happen IN TIME with the horse even without me to copy...).

We currently ride a horse who is /way/ more forward for me and really quite sweet and steady with him. Although as he improves she is putting a few more of her own upwards transitions ;-)

My previous horse really didn't like unbalanced riders so would instantly slow if anyone felt unsteady. That may have been more of a comfort thing for him but, still, very different for different riders.

Likewise RDA horses...

They really can tell the difference.
 
Yes!

For me Genie is strong and forward going, and the same for anybody else who gets on and says 'I can ride'. She seems to say 'well bring it on!'.

When people who are a bit nervous get on her she is an absolute dobbin... really looks after them! She still has a reputation on the yard of nobody wanting to ride her though...
 
glad its not just me then! pleased in a guilty way, as meg has been very sensible when i've ridden her for a while so i thought it was great when she had a bit of spark and whizz today! :p
 
Yes! Although I'm not riding my 3 year old as yet, even when I'm walking her round the roads to keep her healthy she is perfect, so quiet but forward-going and halts/walks/trots for me brilliantly. Then, someone else takes her down the road and she is either lazy/hyper! Maybe she's just used to me and knows she can't get away with it but it's funny how they are different and know different people! :p
 
Yes, he'll take the mick with anyone new and if he's worried about people will become very bargy and revert to biting also xx
 
Yes definately will trundle along with my son who has trouble getting a canter out of him. I get on and he will be more forward. Not that he is really forward though :D
 
One of my mares is very very wary of other people doing anything with her let alone riding (nobody else rides her) she looks at strangers as though they've got horns on their heads and smoke coming out.
 
My Welshie decides within moments of meeting people how he'll be - you've either 'got it' or you haven't with him, and it seems to be nothing to do with riding ability either. Sometimes I can tell from the way he stands like a statue/refuses to stand/paces in circles when being groomed by others whether he will behave when ridden by them! He can be fine, can be a plod or if he greatly dislikes you he plants and will not move until you get off off, meaning he has a reputation for being a complete git. :o Shame really as I think he's lovely, but I can see why others might not be so keen.

For me, he is very nice to ride (most of the time), which secretly makes me feel both really guilty and quite special. However, I have had him all his life and for the first 12 years or so it was just the two of us so I would hope he would have warmed to me by now. :rolleyes:
 
hmm...don't really know about my current boy being ridden by novicey people but he's calmer than usual with my mum as she broke her leg in Jan and when she first got on was a bit wobbly (she's an instructor and has ridden numerous horses other wouldn't and competed to a decent level so is by no means novice! just broken)
My old pony was a sod for it though, used to leap about with me like a loon, but my grandmother of 70+ who is absolutely tiny would get on and he'd just turn into a dobbin! He was a sweety :)
The funniest one is the semi-retired hack who's job is now looking after the babies out hacking. He's absolutely rock steady for the first few weeks, then as they get more confident, he reverts back to his silly, senile, spooky self :) He's such a babe like that! And he's completely silly with me, having a buck and a leap about and shows his TB side but when others get on he shows his cart horse side and calms down....
 
I have a horse that anyone's ride from a 3 year old to an older disabled novice. He's so gentle and carries them so carefully he almost seems to stop breathing.
With competent, fun loving teenagers he's up for fun and the 5th gear comes into play.He'll do anything, go anywhere.
However, anyone who uses him as a machine, or is insensitive, he'll be a sod. Plants, will not go off alone with them, will spin and bugger off back home. No one has ever fallen off this horse, except an arrogant man who thought he was boss. After several boots in the ribs, the horse warned him, once, twice.. and finally, sighed and horsepaulted him through the air. The man never treated him with such disrespect again. Horse has never bronced before or since.

This horse is an amazing judge of character. Should really ask his opinion more often.
 
My little horse was so strong when I rode him, would love xc, thought he was a race horse, when my daughter of only 3 rode him, bare back most the time he would hardly move, if he felt her slipping he would stop and try and reset her balance, so sweet to watch :-)
 
Totally. On a good day with me b is a little schooling jumping machine. She goes mental jumpging and is soo much fun. With most of my friends she will not school easily and with a novice she potters over fences like am old riding school pony! And l will only work in outline for me and sharer. My sister who is a very capable rider cannot get her to carry herself at all.
 
Yep :D

He'll be good as gold in the school and hacking for me, as soon as anyone else gets on him he'll worry and rear up and run off somewhere else :rolleyes:
In a way, it makes him really hard to sell as I'm the only one he trusts fully enough to ride him out as he is a very nervy horse around strangers.
He is also a gem to catch with people he knows and trusts but put a stranger in with him he'll do anything to get away or hours
 
Captain is like this, he can be an angel for Elizabeth but hates to be ridden by anyone else. He will tolerate our YO, he is very wary of her and has a lot of respect for her. But anyone else he give a horrible ride and has been called " the stubbornest and most bloody minded horse" An AI had ever ridden. But to Elizabeth, and occasionally me, he is generally a sweetheart unless you try to get him to hack out alone.

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