Meet my ex-racehorse! Also advice

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So after being with a good friend to make sure she's sane and sensible, I'm pleased to say she is the latter! Although hopefully the sane bit will kick in when she isn't so fit and buzzy but she only came out of training 2 weeks ago and last point to pointed last month so I'll let off!

There is A LOT to work on but she is proving to be a real poppet so I'm hoping that in a couple of months time we'll be out and about competing at small shows - however a friend is trying to drag me to Wales and West at the end of the month but we'll see how she goes, if anything may just take her for the experience.




So now to the advice bit... I've ridden racehorses last year so more than capable to exercising them but never actually retrained any. I'm planning on just hacking her for the next month or two, then see what is best for her. Does that sound about right?

She was at a yard where the horses get turned out and hacked alone and in company so not your "usual" training yard.
 
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If you can let her live out 24/7 to help her chill out.

Apart from letting her down from her racehorse diet and workload, she is a horse and schools like any other horse. TB's are no different.

The one thing she may react to is loudspeakers - can send them back to race mode with one crackle and a feedback whine!

Initially they need to be treated like a green broken horse in that often they don't truly understand leg aids - they've worked in company for so long that they move because the other horses moved.

Basic school will consist of transitions between and within paces and heaps of circles, loops and serpentines. Try not to go around the arena more than once without doing something different - keeps their very smart brains occupied.

If she is being too forward in trot, to avoid overusing the reins, slow your rising so that you slow her down then you can use your legs to improve the quality of the steps.
 
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