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Just been told by someone that when my horse rears, I need to have in my hand a bottle of water that i can open and pour over his head so he thinks he's hurt himself. Erm, with WHICH pair of hands?? Oh these?? the ones I'm already using to hang on with??:D

whats the maddest piece of riding advice you've ever been given?
 
Was also told this or hit them on the head, it makes sense as they often will think they have hit themselves, but how are you supposed do all that when trying to control tour mount? It is a braver person than I clearly am :)
 
It is an old one, along with the egg theory, strangly i dont tend to carry an egg around in my pocket incase of a horse rearing.
have managed to tap on the head with a whip when a horse has gone up and they never did it again, dont know if that was due to the tap or not
 
tried egg, never worked...nor water either.....

What did work (and don't poxy well start giving me grief about abuse now :rolleyes:!) was when the horse is almost on the perpendicular, grab one ear, tug hard downwards - and slap the cheek on the other side.
Yes, that did work on a couple of confirmed rearers we had in for re-hab. Tip was from an old romany (not p i k e y) who gave me some really interesting conversations.......

Not pleasant, when you are thinking; is there time to abort mission control & abandon ship - or is there time to get it down safely?

Never, ever try this in a confined area, nor on a hard surface, unless your personal safety is severely compromised in the 1st place.
 
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I personally wouldn't try the egg, seems to be a little too widely known to do nothing. Haha.
My loan pony is a confirmed rearer, though so far hasn't gone all the way up with me. If he did though, he'd be getting a sharp slap either on his poll or a tap with my whip, for sure.
 
I tried the egg one on a pony I had that spent more time on her 2 legs than 4 :( eggs ended up everywhere bar were they were supposed to end up :D
 
So with the bottles of water, eggs, whip to hand etc, how are you to have the hands free for pulling on the ear?!! Mad suggestions! OH mare went up once, once she landed she had the smack of her life with the whip. She has never done it since, job done (and no she isn't absused!!).

There was a funny bit on the last page of H&H recently where the 'cure' was to stick a mad cat between the horses hind legs!!!! Can't remember what it was to cure but thought it was pretty insane!
 
ThePony said:
So with the bottles of water, eggs, whip to hand etc, how are you to have the hands free for pulling on the ear?!! Mad suggestions! OH mare went up once, once she landed she had the smack of her life with the whip. She has never done it since, job done (and no she isn't absused!!).

There was a funny bit on the last page of H&H recently where the 'cure' was to stick a mad cat between the horses hind legs!!!! Can't remember what it was to cure but thought it was pretty insane!
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Haha I think I've heard that, isn't that to stop them clawing furniture??.......Oh, its for the horse?!
 
Tomato ketchup {daddies sauce} in a thin poly bag or well used baloon will do the trick, he will love the taste and never go up again!!!! If he is confirmed rearer you need a thick glass Heinz bottle smashed on his poll hard enuff to break the bottle, otherwise it will not work.
Obviously you have an independent seat, so no need to hold on, if you can get hold of the 5 inch diameter rowel spurs as used in cowboy films all will be fine. I don' agree with whips, get a blue pipe, this is the thing.
PS where are all the mad cats to be sourced?
PS holding one ear will not work it has to be two ears, near side twisted clockwise and off side one anti clockwise, but I may be wrong.
 
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