tonitot
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Okay this is loooonggg so cookies in advance if you get to the end
Righto .. Del, the thoroughbred I ride for the lady who owns the yard Ted is kept at, has been a right numpty recently. With the snow and ice he hadn't been ridden for a while and when his owner rode him, he threw her off on the road because he didnt want to go past something and came cantering home. Luckily his owner was fine, just fustrated that she couldnt get him past and she put it down to it being his first time out in a while and he was alone, so she went out with the horse next door but he was still a prat. We then thought that maybe he just needs to be ridden more so I offered to ride him again. In the school he's as good as gold, coming on really nicely with his jumping (5yr old ex racer and hasnt jumped very much but jumping nearly 3ft single jumps now) After being in the school the first day I rode him I took him out on the roads for a walk. We were getting on really well until we came across a field with some incrediably (sp?) scary small brown goats in it. He walked past slowly and I kept my leg on on and spoke to him nicely and we kept going. This was until a car appeared and Del thought "Yeah right! I'm going home!" and span round to go off home, every time I turned him back he carried on going till he was facing home again and nothing I did could stop him. He then started walking right in the bushes along the side of the road and everytime I turned him out to the road he went further into the bushes, if I turned him towards the bushes he just reared. After about 10 mins of this I gave up and go off and led him past and let the now 3 cars pass, luckily the person in the first car knew Del and was very patient. Once they went past I somehow managed to get back on from the ground (im not very agile!) and we walked a bit further down the road and then headed for home. I decided to take him back past the goats away from home so he learnt that he couldnt make me get off when he didnt want to do something. He got halfway past and then did his trick of spinning, going into the bush, rearing. He staretd annoying me so I gave him a big boot, which resulted in a vertical rear and then leap whislt still in the bush. He managed to pull the stirrup off the saddle so I had to get off and search for that. Once it was back on I got on and got angry and made him go past the goats. Dont know how, I think he just realised I was really peed off and decided to do as he was told. Eventually we went home.
I rode him again yesterday and again he was doing good in the school and I decided to go out again. He started playing up before we'd even left the yard, rearing, spinning and being stupid and we somehow ended up back in the school. He started doing what he did with the bushes along the fence of the school and I couldnt stop him. When we got away from the fence I got angry and smacked him a few times behind my leg and made hi trot to the gate trying to keep him going, he stopped did a vertical rear and twisted, I somehow stayed on for that but then he kinda jumped and I fell forwards and he reared up, smacking me in the face and knocking me off balance and so when he twisted again I went out the side door. I got back on and really booted him so we trotted all the way out onto the road. He was an angel from then on until we met a horsebox and he very nearly walked backwards into it, did his bush, rear, spinning thing and I ended up in tears, fustrated because I didnt know how to sort him out. Luckily some friendly girls and their horse came past and offered to lead us past the box. So we followed and he was fine and when we left the horses he was happy to be going home.
Ahh that was a mission! So if anyone has any kind of advice of how we can sort Del out and stop his stupid behaviour on the road, I'd be very grateful. The owner supposedly had the person who re-schooled him and sorted him out before out today to ride him, but I dont know if it happened because we had a lot of rain. Again ... cookies for getting this far
Righto .. Del, the thoroughbred I ride for the lady who owns the yard Ted is kept at, has been a right numpty recently. With the snow and ice he hadn't been ridden for a while and when his owner rode him, he threw her off on the road because he didnt want to go past something and came cantering home. Luckily his owner was fine, just fustrated that she couldnt get him past and she put it down to it being his first time out in a while and he was alone, so she went out with the horse next door but he was still a prat. We then thought that maybe he just needs to be ridden more so I offered to ride him again. In the school he's as good as gold, coming on really nicely with his jumping (5yr old ex racer and hasnt jumped very much but jumping nearly 3ft single jumps now) After being in the school the first day I rode him I took him out on the roads for a walk. We were getting on really well until we came across a field with some incrediably (sp?) scary small brown goats in it. He walked past slowly and I kept my leg on on and spoke to him nicely and we kept going. This was until a car appeared and Del thought "Yeah right! I'm going home!" and span round to go off home, every time I turned him back he carried on going till he was facing home again and nothing I did could stop him. He then started walking right in the bushes along the side of the road and everytime I turned him out to the road he went further into the bushes, if I turned him towards the bushes he just reared. After about 10 mins of this I gave up and go off and led him past and let the now 3 cars pass, luckily the person in the first car knew Del and was very patient. Once they went past I somehow managed to get back on from the ground (im not very agile!) and we walked a bit further down the road and then headed for home. I decided to take him back past the goats away from home so he learnt that he couldnt make me get off when he didnt want to do something. He got halfway past and then did his trick of spinning, going into the bush, rearing. He staretd annoying me so I gave him a big boot, which resulted in a vertical rear and then leap whislt still in the bush. He managed to pull the stirrup off the saddle so I had to get off and search for that. Once it was back on I got on and got angry and made him go past the goats. Dont know how, I think he just realised I was really peed off and decided to do as he was told. Eventually we went home.
I rode him again yesterday and again he was doing good in the school and I decided to go out again. He started playing up before we'd even left the yard, rearing, spinning and being stupid and we somehow ended up back in the school. He started doing what he did with the bushes along the fence of the school and I couldnt stop him. When we got away from the fence I got angry and smacked him a few times behind my leg and made hi trot to the gate trying to keep him going, he stopped did a vertical rear and twisted, I somehow stayed on for that but then he kinda jumped and I fell forwards and he reared up, smacking me in the face and knocking me off balance and so when he twisted again I went out the side door. I got back on and really booted him so we trotted all the way out onto the road. He was an angel from then on until we met a horsebox and he very nearly walked backwards into it, did his bush, rear, spinning thing and I ended up in tears, fustrated because I didnt know how to sort him out. Luckily some friendly girls and their horse came past and offered to lead us past the box. So we followed and he was fine and when we left the horses he was happy to be going home.
Ahh that was a mission! So if anyone has any kind of advice of how we can sort Del out and stop his stupid behaviour on the road, I'd be very grateful. The owner supposedly had the person who re-schooled him and sorted him out before out today to ride him, but I dont know if it happened because we had a lot of rain. Again ... cookies for getting this far
