Sending problem horses away for schooling in Berks?

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I think I want to send Lacey away for schooling.

TBH she's getting worse again - her reaction to anything she doesn't like is to go bolt upright on her back legs these days. We've had a rollercoaster of 3 years with her, she's had time off, been restarted, had other riders on her ect everythings made her worse or no difference.

I think its basically napping, but I'm finally gonna conclude I just don't have the experience or ability to deal with it sufficiently. Its not a constan problem...80% of the time she's as good as gold, if a little fiesty (but thats who she is), 10% she's naughty like cantering sideways, the odd fun buck, prancing ect. 10% she's plain dangerous, standing bolt upright on her back legs, touching down and doing it again over and over. Well its probably even less than 10%, but whatever its irrelevant, sooner or later someone is gonna get hurt and she needs to learn rearing isn't the solution.

PLEASE DO NOT GIVE ME ADVISE ON HOW TO DEAL WITH IT
The thing is, everyone has their own ideas and its too confusing, I think a professional needs to deal with her.

I'd like to be part of her retraining if possible, hence I'm looking for somewhere in Berkshire. Also I'd prefer her to go to a natural horsemanship/monty roberts kind of place as we did some of that with her before and it worked well...and I dont want to risk her going somewhere where they might end up beating her up.

Soooo does anyone know anywhere?
 
Did you sort out the saddle rubbing her? it may just be that, and your a better rider than you think! you looked fab last time i saw you out ! so dont jump to conclusions that it is you not being able to manage
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Yeah, the hairs all grown back now..and she's been doing it for 3 years just increasingly worse lol so don't think its that >.<

Shes been physically checked out hundreds of times, her back, saddle and teeth are done on a regular bases so its DEFINATLY not a pain problem, and I've kept diaries ect, her seasons are irrelevant :P

Soo yeah..this is my last real option apart from "accept it and avoid the situation" I think
 
if you go on monty roberts website there is a list of monty roberts approved horse trainers on there i know a really good person but they are like 4 hours away from you
 
No idea of their reputation but these people did an arena demo at Hurst Horse Show and had a stand, they seemed nice people and used more natural methods
http://www.msjump.co.uk/index.html. The horse that beat my daughter's little pony (by a mere 3 seconds) in the Horse and Hound was re-trained by them - ex race horse that used to balk at fillers in a bad way apparently.
 
Well, the best place to go would be to Hartsop Farm - not quite in Berkshire, but only in Witney. That is where all the Intelligent Horsemanship courses are run as well. Ian and Sandy really are brilliant! The website is www.hartsopfarm.co.uk, although it is under construction, so not that informative, but it has all the contact details on there.
 
Thanks
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I jsut realised we've been in contact with Gary before - he was going to work on my issters old horse with loading, but she didn't go through with it in the end as she decided she didn't go out enough so it wasn't really worrth the money and it wouldn't be reenforced enough.

I'll just have to wait for replies now.
 
How about Paul Crago, he is fantastic with difficult horses, very patient & calm, not a Monty Roberts type yard though, but could thoroughly recommend. PM me if you want his number, & he is in Berkshire.
 
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