devilinajar
Well-Known Member
Sorry this may be long!!
First a little bit of back ground,
I ride my friends 16yr old cob cross mare. She told me she has had issues in the past getting on the mare from the ground, so she will only get on her from a leg up. For the past 2 and a half years i have ridden her, and always got on from the mounting block with out a problem.
Around feb the mare fell over in the field and hurt either her back or neck, which resulted in her being unridable for nearly 4 month, the first 2 months she struggled to control her rear end. Vet put her on steroids and this has done the trick.
I started ridding her again towards the end of June, and didnt has any issues getting on her untill about 3 weeks ago. At first she would run backwards at my first attemp to get on, but was then after that. Then last sunday as i got on in the drive to hack out, she ran backwards then dropped her shoulder resulting in me hitting the deck very hard. No broken bones, so tried to get on again, the poor mare looked terrified and did the same again, luckilly this time i was in the school. I eventually was given a leg up and she was fine with this. Since then i can only get on her from a leg up.
I really dont know what is wrong with her, as the owner says this is how she used to be, but my gut instinct tells me there is something wrong as she is now very slugish on our hacks.
Please can you give me some suggestions as to what might be wrong. I have spoken to the owner and she said she will get her back checked, but i get the impression she wont hurry about it.
This pic was taken 5 weeks ago.
Wine and chocs for getting this far!!
First a little bit of back ground,
I ride my friends 16yr old cob cross mare. She told me she has had issues in the past getting on the mare from the ground, so she will only get on her from a leg up. For the past 2 and a half years i have ridden her, and always got on from the mounting block with out a problem.
Around feb the mare fell over in the field and hurt either her back or neck, which resulted in her being unridable for nearly 4 month, the first 2 months she struggled to control her rear end. Vet put her on steroids and this has done the trick.
I started ridding her again towards the end of June, and didnt has any issues getting on her untill about 3 weeks ago. At first she would run backwards at my first attemp to get on, but was then after that. Then last sunday as i got on in the drive to hack out, she ran backwards then dropped her shoulder resulting in me hitting the deck very hard. No broken bones, so tried to get on again, the poor mare looked terrified and did the same again, luckilly this time i was in the school. I eventually was given a leg up and she was fine with this. Since then i can only get on her from a leg up.
I really dont know what is wrong with her, as the owner says this is how she used to be, but my gut instinct tells me there is something wrong as she is now very slugish on our hacks.
Please can you give me some suggestions as to what might be wrong. I have spoken to the owner and she said she will get her back checked, but i get the impression she wont hurry about it.
This pic was taken 5 weeks ago.
Wine and chocs for getting this far!!