Little sod ran off with me!! (long sorry)

[picolenicole]

I've been working with my 4 year old and had just started to think we were getting somewhere. He would come down and round when asked and had just started to listen to my leg when I asked him to cross his.

But yesterday the little bugger kept his chin in his chest and the only way I could get him off it was by working him forward from my leg. He had other ideas, when I asked for stand he would walk, every pace I aksed for he went one faster!!

So to try and get him thinking I went into a different field, a bigger one. The little sod then galloped the length of it and wouldn't stop headed straight to the opening in the wall to go home!!!

Just managed to stop him in the opening as I pointed him at one of the post's. Then really had to tell him to turn round, and carried on trying to work him. The whole time he were "workin" he kept hedding for the opening!!

So in the end my half an hour schooling turned out to be an hour and a half, of "mum I'm not listening" to "ok I'll do that but not that!!" So after he calmb down and started to listen, (sort of) we then went for a hack. (Walk back home to cool down) And guess what he leg yeild straight away and did every perfect.

Would of been easier if he did this to begin with!!

What would you of done?????

Chocolate cake for reading!!

 

[Booboos]

I don't have much experience with youngsters, but it sounds like he was being nappy and the only thing to do is to work him out of it. Well done for not giving in!

If you are having problems overall though it might be worth giving him a couple of months off in the field or some time with just gentle hacking?

 

[MrsMozart]

Yup, worked through it

Had one years ago (when I was young, fit and bounced better!). He decided that he was going to keep bombing off, not bolting, just being a pain in the ar$e! So, one day instead of trying to pull him up, I pushed him on and on and on (big, flat, well hedged field

). Everytime he treid to slow he got pushed on again. Did it twice. Never did it again

. He was a bit older though and more balanced.

 

[_Rach_]

Yeh you did the right thing by trying to work though it, horses are annoying when they do things like that arent they!
x

 

[FeatherPower]

I think it must be a coloured cob thing!! I had a slight 'accident' in a field two weeks ago, where he has been fine so far but was spooked by something and literally span on a sixpence and headed for home full pelt !

I bailed out - with hindsight should have stayed on, very bruised bottom, spine and ego. Somehow I ended up in front of him and he came to a stop with that 'How did you get over there?' look on his face.

little bugger #2 !