My pogo pony :(

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I forgot what it was like to ride my Arab when it's not hot (being anything above 15 degree celcius without much of a breeze!) we went out yesterday and it was windy and a little rainy and cool
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went into the hay field that's been cut round the edge and tried to canter and she just pogo'd on the spot.

I took a check then pushed her forward againa and she leapt onto her forehead then leapt off all four feet twisted landed and leapt forwards again then landing she spooked at a bit of sheeps sorrow in the hay (which was moving in the wind) took off up the field then slammed the brakes on at a tree (also moving in the wind!) decide running really was the best idea and took off again.

I took another check (meaning one hand on the neck the other pulling with all my strength) in an attempt to contain the beast and she went back to pogo canter
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ended up trotting/sideways cantering until I got annoyed and brought her right back to a walk, yelled a bit told her to grow up and threatened her with McDonalds (she's make a stringy horse burger)

Anyway rant over bring back the heat my Arab isn't designed for the normal UK weather!

NB this horse turned 23 in March 2009, I have tried to school the nonsense out of her but she feigns sleep throughout
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Haha bless her. She's just trying to prove she's still a youngster really
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Unfortunatel, our summer is probably over, god help you if she's only good in the hot sun, we only get about 2 weeks of that a year! How do you cope the rest of the time?
 
I lost my arab mare at 21yrs old last Feb but you're story just made me laugh as it described hacking her to a T! I don't think you can school the chestnut mareness out of an arab; mine just got "younger" and nuttier the older she got!
 
Honestly I think I must just be used to it but we've had about 2 months of really hot weather and she's been going round like a seaside donkey throughout...think I just forgot she was a chestnut Arab
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She does have days where she'll canter in a straight line, and she doesn't always spook at plants, just ones that move! Or if they change colour, like when the snow drops come out, that's just plain terrifying...in 23 years of life she's never seen a patch of white flowers, really never! She usually makes me laugh but I had a hangover and had not planned a wild hack!
 
There must be something in the air. My quiet little horse dropped me and went tear-arsing round Somerford Park on her own yesterday.
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NB this horse turned 23 in March 2009, I have tried to school the nonsense out of her but she feigns sleep throughout
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Lol
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I was at the Royal Show Stoneleigh last week and happened to find myself in the collecting ring for the Arab in hand classes, there were horses everywhere, colts, fillys, geldings, stallions and mares, it was mayhem.

I would love to own an Arab, this scene and your description have just added to my wish. However, it's easy to smile at such antics when A) It's not your horse, and B) It's not cold, wet and windy (and you're trying to get home)
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Glad it's not just me then! I think it must be something in the air, or they are all reawakening from the heatwave that has just passed.

I think I will refrain from drinking so much on a Saturday night from now on...or just give her Sunday off
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Took my PBA to a local show on Sunday...took him in the veteran class where he showed me up by refusing to stand still and cantering practically on the spot and cantering when we should have been trotting in hand.

Judge said the arab in him would keep him going for another 10 years
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(he's about 22 but thinks he's 2)

.....I was worn out with his daftness so took him home early....he did get placed in both classes so I will let him off but I had a banging headache with him screaming in my ear -the old git.
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The just-turned- 5- very- green- youngster by comparison is as good as gold at shows.
 
My 21 year old AngloArab is also a nutter. I took him hunting last year, and he was by far the craziest one there, refusing to stand still, running backwards into ditches etc, at one point he reared up from the excitement of it all, fell over sideways, despositing me and then cantered off under a railway tunnel and down a river for half a mile! I decided to take him home after this!
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P.S Just so you know your not alone and your arab is normal.
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My arab mare goes from hot/ploddy to cool/queen of the spooks! Her best so far is stopping for a pee in the middle of the road, the pee ran under her front feet. She suddenly remembered that she doesn't do water and jumped forward in aquaphobic terror. Don't you just love em?!
 
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