It only took three years.

[tristar]

i think you answer your own questions when you say how much it means to you when you get the good moments, that feeling when you just feel what is in a certain horse that you love riding is what riding is about to me.

you look like you are giving him every chance to come through on his own terms and maybe there will come a point where you can be more demanding and move him on, who knows.

so you went there and did it, you looked very patient quietly riding him through his unbalanced moments, well done if only for the sheer effort involved in achieving that.

i `m not saying that he is in pain or not or he is this or that because i have`nt a clue, sometimes we have to do the journey however difficult to find out what the destination will be.

 

[ycbm]

Spot on Micropony. Thank you for that. 'Glacial pace of progress' gave me a particular smile of recognition.

 

[ycbm]

i think you answer your own questions when you say how much it means to you when you get the good moments, that feeling when you just feel what is in a certain horse that you love riding is what riding is about to me.

you look like you are giving him every chance to come through on his own terms and maybe there will come a point where you can be more demanding and move him on, who knows.

so you went there and did it, you looked very patient quietly riding him through his unbalanced moments, well done if only for the sheer effort involved in achieving that.

i `m not saying that he is in pain or not or he is this or that because i have`nt a clue, sometimes we have to do the journey however difficult to find out what the destination will be.

Thank you

 

[Goldenstar]

It does not matter what you get done with a horse or how much time it takes as long as it's getting enough exercise to be healthy and you are enjoying what you do .

 

[SEL]

I'm transferring what I know about my horse across, which may be dangerous but
Mine will merrily trundle round in a very similar way given the option. All those big muscles at the back end seem to be those most affected by PSSM, and you've got to remember that, however good they may feel on that particular day, you are dealing with a horse who for years of their life had bum muscles that ache constantly and a lactic acid type burn whenever they try to use them enthusiastically. Whatever you do to correct the effect that the condition has on the horse in the here and now, that is one hell of a piece of emotional baggage that will colour all work you do with the horse.

It would be far far far easier for me to chuck my guy out in the field and leave him, ignoring the increasingly pained expression on his face. But I know how much happier he is now in the level of work he is in now, and seeing how he grows in confidence and freedom of movement as his physical strength increases, I feel like I owe it to him to do as much as I can with him.

Sums up my life perfectly! Thank you.