LauraWheeler
Well-Known Member
Well after over a year of batteling with the horrid one to get him to go forwards instead of napping and trying to ride him through all the bucking, rearing and spinning he threw something totaly new at me on Sat.
It was a lovely day and my OH was out for the day so I desided to take him hacking. Off we pootled and were having a lovely ride in the forest. We had afew trots and canters and Herbs seemed to be enjoying himself
He was being alittle odd and spooking at stuff but I just put that down to the fact he had had a tractor driving up and down outside his stable all morning and maybe that had upset him alittle. We were nearly at the cattle grid at the end of our track home. I was riding through some braken when I heard some horses trotting along the track below us. I didn't think much of it and just spoke to Herbs calmly and asked him to walk on. Suddenly he did a HUGE leap followed by an almighty buck. (Nothing new there 
) But then he bolted 
He just took off through the braken and I had no brakes. I couldn't circle as we where to close to the road on one side and the other would have been twords the other horses. We carried on and I eventualy managed to stop him where the two tracks met. Once I pulled him up he was back to his normal ploddy self. It was soooooo embaressing though when we saw the other horses. It was two blokes on big hunters. They must have thought it very odd seeing me out of control on a 12.2hh forester.
There where people everywhere on the forest so I desided it was best to just take him home.
On Sun I lunged him and made him do loads of canter till he was nakered 
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Today I took him out in the forest again and took him down the same track he bolted down on Sat. He was ok today so hopefuly it was a one off.
Just when I thought this pony was finaly going to start behaving himself he goes and shows just why he is still the horrid one
It was a lovely day and my OH was out for the day so I desided to take him hacking. Off we pootled and were having a lovely ride in the forest. We had afew trots and canters and Herbs seemed to be enjoying himself
He was being alittle odd and spooking at stuff but I just put that down to the fact he had had a tractor driving up and down outside his stable all morning and maybe that had upset him alittle. We were nearly at the cattle grid at the end of our track home. I was riding through some braken when I heard some horses trotting along the track below us. I didn't think much of it and just spoke to Herbs calmly and asked him to walk on. Suddenly he did a HUGE leap followed by an almighty buck. (Nothing new there ) But then he bolted He just took off through the braken and I had no brakes. I couldn't circle as we where to close to the road on one side and the other would have been twords the other horses. We carried on and I eventualy managed to stop him where the two tracks met. Once I pulled him up he was back to his normal ploddy self. It was soooooo embaressing though when we saw the other horses. It was two blokes on big hunters. They must have thought it very odd seeing me out of control on a 12.2hh forester. There where people everywhere on the forest so I desided it was best to just take him home.
On Sun I lunged him and made him do loads of canter till he was nakered .Today I took him out in the forest again and took him down the same track he bolted down on Sat. He was ok today so hopefuly it was a one off.
Just when I thought this pony was finaly going to start behaving himself he goes and shows just why he is still the horrid one
But I still love him. I also think the spring grass may have something to do with it. Our grass is deff starting to grow despite the frost we've been having every morning 
