Merlod
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Sorry for the long post! He's for my 14 year old sister who has been riding him (13.2 NF) about 2 weeks. Has been fine on road hacks and in the school, a little buzzy but he hasn't been in work for some time (not his fault - owners lack of time). Took him in the schooling field to do W,T,C once on each rein (not exactly mind blowing AND he was put behind my pony so he could just follow lead) fine in walk and trot went in to canter and he buggered off with her, leapt, stuck his head between his legs and started bucking. She got back on, he did it again. Both times she came off he stopped to eat. This time we swapped and I got on him - he tried it with me and we had a bit of a fight, I got him on a circle and made him canter around until the attitude went and he started behaving, on each rein.
I'm sure the problem is his attitude as he was ok once we established I was in charge! I think he will try it on so she needs to be in control. Problem is, I need her to be able to stop the first part of the sequence to stand a chance - where he ******* of at speed she needs to stop him before he starts leaping and bucking. I managed it but when he goes off he completely runs through the bit, I am a much stronger rider than her and I found it difficult..
Previously he was ridden in a single joint eggbutt, I have him in a french link eggbutt as I only have double jointed bits to hand and I think that maybe it's actually too soft he can take hold and ignore it? I'm not sure what to do next, we've just put him in a single joint eggbutt and there doesn't seem to be much difference in responsiveness so she's not taken him back in the field yet I was thinking after his teeth are done to short term put him in a dr bristol just to she can establish some control of this buggering off and then move to a verbindend (fab bit I use on my welsh cob) or should we not bother with double joints persevere with single jointed bits for him?
Also, he is from our yard anyway, has been there years, so no change in feed or routine and we have booked the dentist for next week so will pick his brains too..
I'm sure the problem is his attitude as he was ok once we established I was in charge! I think he will try it on so she needs to be in control. Problem is, I need her to be able to stop the first part of the sequence to stand a chance - where he ******* of at speed she needs to stop him before he starts leaping and bucking. I managed it but when he goes off he completely runs through the bit, I am a much stronger rider than her and I found it difficult..
Previously he was ridden in a single joint eggbutt, I have him in a french link eggbutt as I only have double jointed bits to hand and I think that maybe it's actually too soft he can take hold and ignore it? I'm not sure what to do next, we've just put him in a single joint eggbutt and there doesn't seem to be much difference in responsiveness so she's not taken him back in the field yet I was thinking after his teeth are done to short term put him in a dr bristol just to she can establish some control of this buggering off and then move to a verbindend (fab bit I use on my welsh cob) or should we not bother with double joints persevere with single jointed bits for him?
Also, he is from our yard anyway, has been there years, so no change in feed or routine and we have booked the dentist for next week so will pick his brains too..