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About 7 weeks ago my TB was diagnosed with chondritis (thickening of the rib cartilage) due to a kick and i was advised to give 6 weeks off. All was well and the weekend before last i went on a little hack then did some very light schooling (mainly at a walk) he wasnt reacting to the leg adversely as he had done before the injury was spotted.

Then the weekend just gone we hacked out and he was an absolute star on saturday, then he was clipped and had a lesson on sunday. This is where it went wrong! Every time i put my leg back when bending he did a kick out at the backend - threatening me more than anything else.

So got vet out - ribs are healed and she cant see anything wrong - he is swishing his tail thou when you touch his belly and sides.

This gets me worried as he is normally such an easy horse, i want to be pleased that nothing is wrong, but i am a very nervous rider and i not keen on riding him through it (as instructed by vet). I just cant understand why he is showing dominant behaviour as he has never done it in the 18 months i have owned him.

Has anyone got any ideas (sorry its a long post!!)
 
So a week back in to work you had a lesson on him???? I'd have complained too.

He may well have been finding the whole thing rather difficult given the amount of time he's had off, and the reasons.......
 
A lesson at walk!! God there is no way i would have done anything more. My instructor is very knowledgeable and knew the situation and i very much doubt she would have let me do anything he couldnt have coped with!
 
Better get the velcro on my bum then!! I hope it is the clipping - he hasnt been clipped for about 2 years since he was racing so that probs is the reason!!
 
Have you clipped him before?

This is the first year I have clipped Baron AND Competed, I took him SJ the day after I fully clipped, he went wild, he was bucking, refusing to move, literally just reacting very violently to every move of my leg. I thought something was seriously wrong, I took him home and withdrew from my classes, rode him there as soon as I got back (after checking him over about 5 times) and he was the same. Gave him a few days off and he was good as gold. I did suspect it was the clip in the first instace as I know it can make some horses fresh, but this was not frest, this was mental.

Dont get me wrong, I do sometimes get the odd buck from him but this was a GET OFF MY BACK buck, as if he was in serious pain.

Also since clipping I have been unable to use spurs, which before hand I always rode him in. I have now bought some impulse spurs which I am yet to try out.
 
Ive never clipped him before myself. I defo think this may be the cause, my friends horses have never had this kind of reaction, but mine can be sensitive sometimes anyway. If he has mud on his girth area sometimes he has to be twitched to allow it to be brushed off.

The thing that was confusing me was that he wasnt reacting to the girth being tightened (this was deciding factor that there was something wrong in first place), and when doing bending (at walk in lesson) he was bending through his ribs which he has never successfully done before (with better flexibility generally through his neck and poll)!!!????

Im so pleased he is already booked in to go and get schooled after new year - i cant take all of this!! There must be some method in his madness!
 
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