Bounty
Well-Known Member
Really running out of ideas as to what causes my mare to completely flip in the space of a second...
She's five but fairly low mileage since she came off the track due to injuries (hers and then mine). I refuse to use her history as a racer to make excuses for how she is now, and I've treated her like a normal youngster.
She can be completely relaxed and working nicely, and in the next second becomes a rodeo monster. Sometimes she uses a minor spook as an excuse, but quite often theres no reason what-so-ever. This occurs in the school, ridden or on the lunge/longlines, and out hacking alone. Hacking in company she's the boldest, best behaved horse you could ever sit on.
So far i've tried:-
a) riding her on strongly and growling, though generally she broncs even harder until she's tired.
b) ignoring her as best as possible, she does get bored and broncs for less time than usual.
c) Giving her hard smacks with whip, usually leads to me being dumped there and then.
She's had her back, teeth and saddle checked, and was checked over by the vet on tuesday - all fine. She does this unridden too, with or without a roller.
She's fed a handful of chaff and topspec twice a day, adlib hay and is worked at least once a day, sometimes twice. Turned out on limited grass for about 12 hours a day.
I'm starting to get fed up with this, she was like this last march/april and we worked through it and she started going consistently nicely. she was then kicked and was out of work until August when she came back in and hacked about a little. Then was on-off lame so rested, and came back into proper work at Xmas. Going exceptionally well and even hacking out alone at this point, until she reverted to old habits and chucked me in Jan, breaking my collar bone. Since then she broncs at least 2/3 times a session, and there are obviously limits to how many times i want to come off before my collar bone has healed!
Suggestions?
She's five but fairly low mileage since she came off the track due to injuries (hers and then mine). I refuse to use her history as a racer to make excuses for how she is now, and I've treated her like a normal youngster.
She can be completely relaxed and working nicely, and in the next second becomes a rodeo monster. Sometimes she uses a minor spook as an excuse, but quite often theres no reason what-so-ever. This occurs in the school, ridden or on the lunge/longlines, and out hacking alone. Hacking in company she's the boldest, best behaved horse you could ever sit on.
So far i've tried:-
a) riding her on strongly and growling, though generally she broncs even harder until she's tired.
b) ignoring her as best as possible, she does get bored and broncs for less time than usual.
c) Giving her hard smacks with whip, usually leads to me being dumped there and then.
She's had her back, teeth and saddle checked, and was checked over by the vet on tuesday - all fine. She does this unridden too, with or without a roller.
She's fed a handful of chaff and topspec twice a day, adlib hay and is worked at least once a day, sometimes twice. Turned out on limited grass for about 12 hours a day.
I'm starting to get fed up with this, she was like this last march/april and we worked through it and she started going consistently nicely. she was then kicked and was out of work until August when she came back in and hacked about a little. Then was on-off lame so rested, and came back into proper work at Xmas. Going exceptionally well and even hacking out alone at this point, until she reverted to old habits and chucked me in Jan, breaking my collar bone. Since then she broncs at least 2/3 times a session, and there are obviously limits to how many times i want to come off before my collar bone has healed!
Suggestions?
