Naughty horse but STUPID car driver!!!

Im afraid i cant offer any help on this subject as the only horses i have broken/worked with as youngsters have been ponies. But we just long reined them around the village and got them used to traffic that way....and then hacked out with a "nanny" horse to meet more and bigger things. Then alone.
But talking of stupid drivers........i was hacking out paddy a couple of months back alone. When paddy napped....he napped for england. That day he decided halfway down the road from the yard that he was NOT going any further forward. Cue alot of spinning, rearing, running backwards, bunny hopping etc....a woman drove up behind us so i asked her to stop and move back as i couldnt go forwards. So she kept coming forwards. So i yelled at her to stop and move away from the horse ans there was no way he was going forwards to the layby.
I asked her politely to reverse about 20 feet to a massive layby so that i could turn him for home, let her pass then have a battle of wills again without anyone to leap into. So she preceeded to drive up close to us bearing in mind when he ran back he did it full pelt and didnt care about hedges, walls, fences etc behind him he would just run into them.
So i asked again for her to move away so her car didnt get damaged and paddy didnt get hurt.
In the end i had to get off paddy and lead him (little bugger would walk forwards fine if you did that but then wouldnt let you back on so i didnt really want to have to resort to that) and lead him to the next gate way. Upon where i did block the road and tell the woman that her stupidity could have resorted in her car being damaged, worse her being injured, or the horse getting injured. To which she replied.....horse riding is a stupid sport and watching that was quite amusing.
I was fuming. Some people are absolute morons.
 
amymay said:
Sorry, tin hat and all that. But I simply do not understand why people feel the need to walk youngsters out on the road. It's just asking for trouble - as highlighted in the op.

Thank god there wasn't an accident.
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Sometimes you dont have a choice, my fields are in one area and stables are down the road in another area so you have to. Plus how else are they going to learn my 2 year old is very bombroof now and enjoys walking out plus it helps her weight off.

OP that driver was a idiot, hopefully your boy will improve with traffic and you dont meet any more drivers like that.
 
sometimes you dont have a choice, my fields are in one area and stables are down the road in another area so you have to. Plus how else are they going to learn my 2 year old is very bombroof now and enjoys walking out plus it helps her weight off.
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Good point about location - and not one I had considered.

It's certainly interesting that those of you with actual making and breaking experience find it an invaluable tool. Just shows that different isn't necessarily wrong.

It's still not something I would want to do - but glad it works for those of you who practice walking youngsters out in hand.
 
Don't get me started on ignorant road users! I was hacking out my young boy yesterday who is fairly good in traffic but can be a little bit worried with bigger traffic and rattling trailers. Anyway, we were hacking along a relatively quiet country lane when a roadworks van with a trailer full of road work barriers appeared around the corner (he must have been doing at least 50 mph) He saw me and slammed his brakes on and skidded which caused my boy to canter sideways nearly into the hedge. I could tell by his face that we had given him a fright. When will people learn that they can't see round blind bends and to slow down?! :(
 
My boy was fed by the side of a busy road when he was a youngster to get him used to traffic. Worked wonders, he doesn't bat an eyelid at anything, lorries, double decker buses, you name it. Mind you, when I got him back to my "rural" location he'd poop his pants at the sight of sheep and cows, let alone 'moving' ones!!
Just goes to show,some you win, some you don't....
Good luck with the training!
 
We've already started bombproofing our warmblood foal on country roads and he is only 18 weeks old. He goes out on the lead rein when we take his mum out for a hack. He has been unbelievable. Nothing seems to phase him. He seems to love the variation from being in the field.
IMO the sooner you start the better.
 
Weve had several youngsters in the 30 yrs weve had horses (gosh im OLD!!), they all start by going out early on a sunday morning with a nanny horse and we have so far had no problems. Ive just started taking the welsh d out that i bought in poor condition in january and hesgreat!
The only thing my daughters horse (15.2 ID x) has spooked at is a BUSH!!!
We do do alot of spookproofing with them, that helps.
 
Gosh glad your both ok. Some drivers are dreadful :mad: i especially hate when they beep the horn grrr drives me mad!!! We have a 5 minute walk down the road till our summer field and the amount of people which fly down it is unreal and its a twisty we road to!!
 
That lady sounds awful. Sadly there are far too many like her on the roads.

Re the young horse on roads, I completely agree that some people have no choice and that this is the best method for them. And my 21 yr old has done the same thing when I was leading him to his field so it isn't just youngsters!
 
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