shellebage
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Good afternoon. Everyone!
Looking for some advice. I have a beautiful new horse, he is a chestnut 16.1hh French trotter. He is an ex Le Trot racer and I have adopted him through a rescue. He was in Malta. Came over to the UK in July where he was matched with his previous adopters, they had a change is circumstances and he has now come to me. Where he will be staying.
At the moment quite rightly he is a little reserved and stressy. After everything he has been through this year I know he will need time to adjust and feel safe and I intend to give him time to do that.
I have not ridden him yet, he came with a saddle and bridle and apparently he is amazing to hack and can be hacked on the buckle which is fab and having walked him in hand I know he is very confident and happy hacking.
He came with a bridle, I bought his new saddle from his adopters.
I tried his saddle on him yesterday as I needed to measure for a girth, I borrowed a correct length girth and tried it on him and he kept kicking out at the girth, going to try again next week, hopefully he was just having an unsettled day (he seemed to be).
He also has an anatomical type bridle with flash noseband but he seemed to hate me doing it up, again he might just be a bit stressy and not settled enough. I'd love to put him in a bit less bridle but I'm not sure whether I should just go for it straight away and start as we mean to go on or wait until he's settled in. The same with riding, I want to ride him but I feel like he needs a bit more time to settle and get to know me and his new life but equally I don't want to leave it so long that he's a nightmare to ride, tack up etc.
I think maybe I'm overthinking things and worrying too much?
Any advice welcome!
Looking for some advice. I have a beautiful new horse, he is a chestnut 16.1hh French trotter. He is an ex Le Trot racer and I have adopted him through a rescue. He was in Malta. Came over to the UK in July where he was matched with his previous adopters, they had a change is circumstances and he has now come to me. Where he will be staying.
At the moment quite rightly he is a little reserved and stressy. After everything he has been through this year I know he will need time to adjust and feel safe and I intend to give him time to do that.
I have not ridden him yet, he came with a saddle and bridle and apparently he is amazing to hack and can be hacked on the buckle which is fab and having walked him in hand I know he is very confident and happy hacking.
He came with a bridle, I bought his new saddle from his adopters.
I tried his saddle on him yesterday as I needed to measure for a girth, I borrowed a correct length girth and tried it on him and he kept kicking out at the girth, going to try again next week, hopefully he was just having an unsettled day (he seemed to be).
He also has an anatomical type bridle with flash noseband but he seemed to hate me doing it up, again he might just be a bit stressy and not settled enough. I'd love to put him in a bit less bridle but I'm not sure whether I should just go for it straight away and start as we mean to go on or wait until he's settled in. The same with riding, I want to ride him but I feel like he needs a bit more time to settle and get to know me and his new life but equally I don't want to leave it so long that he's a nightmare to ride, tack up etc.
I think maybe I'm overthinking things and worrying too much?
Any advice welcome!
