conniegirl
Well-Known Member
we have an arab who was attacked in a trailer by one of my other horses and since then quite understandably has been a nightmare to travel, to the point where he put himself down in the trailer and then launched himself out of the jockey door (all 15hh of him out of an ifors jockey door) he destroyed his back and his knees and for about 20 mins would not weight bare on one leg (very very worrying).
He very very nearly killed the girl who got in to get him up when he went past her through the door, if she had not had the presence of mind and the courage to get in the other partition with the other pony (who is a brilliant traveler but is a rescue case and likely to kill any person that moves to fast around him) then she would have been squashed between the horse and the trailer frame.
I would highly recommend that if you have to get in the trailer with a horse that is panicing that you get in via the front ramp as it gives more room for you to get out of the way and more room for the horse if it decideds to come out of the trailer.
As for getting him to travel again, we took the partition out of the trailer and let him position himself, he turned right round (we were only going round the field so decided to see how he prefered to travel), so we borrowed an equitrek and he traveled wonderfully in it on his own. he also travels quite well in the horsebox!!
He very very nearly killed the girl who got in to get him up when he went past her through the door, if she had not had the presence of mind and the courage to get in the other partition with the other pony (who is a brilliant traveler but is a rescue case and likely to kill any person that moves to fast around him) then she would have been squashed between the horse and the trailer frame.
I would highly recommend that if you have to get in the trailer with a horse that is panicing that you get in via the front ramp as it gives more room for you to get out of the way and more room for the horse if it decideds to come out of the trailer.
As for getting him to travel again, we took the partition out of the trailer and let him position himself, he turned right round (we were only going round the field so decided to see how he prefered to travel), so we borrowed an equitrek and he traveled wonderfully in it on his own. he also travels quite well in the horsebox!!