Ahrena
Well-Known Member
God I don't know what goes on in the head of this horse! Anyway just a quick bit of BG info, I'm not jumping or competing her at the moment as feel she needed a break, will probably start jumping again in about 6 weeks time (then she's had 2 and a half months off from it) and we'll take it from there.
She's just had 2 weeks off, first because I was ill, then she had a random spot of heat in her leg for a couple of days which the vet saw and there was nothing wrong, then I went away. I hacked her out on Sunday with no problems what so ever, as enthusiastic as she has been ever since we started feeding her more. Yesterday I schooled her and she was very good, a little sticky in the corners near the end but she always does that, its like her little sign that she's getting tired so then I always just finish off on a good note quickly else she throws a tantrum - she doesn't have a very long concentration span. Then I hacked round for about 40 minutes/a hour just in walk back to the field as she was very sweaty as hasn't been clipped yet. Going up the drive she halted a couple of times and when we passed a track to go back to the yard she did a very small spin. I didn't think anything of it as she's not used to schooling then going for a hack.
I took her for a ride today, wow when I got on she actually stood still! But this was a little forebiding as usually she tries to leave the yard before you're in the saddle..Anyway, set off, when we reached a T, I went left, and right would be going quickly back to the field. She walked okay but felt a little backwards, I relaxed my reins thinking she would be okay though, and she did a little rear and spin. I spun her round in a couple of small circles, asked her to go on and she did. Then she was fine until we passed the next option with a place to go home where there repeated. This spoilt my mood a little so I decided just to go on a short ride not the longish one I had been planning as didn't feel like repeating this by every turning. So we had a trot and a canter, and she was very strong. This surprised me because when she was napping before she was never strong going away from home, but before I went away and she wasn't napping she was a little strong, but I like it that way [lol]
Anyway, so I decided to ride the long way back, so passed the shortest way to go home, in a direction of what could be a much longer ride..Behold Lacey didn't nap (before she would have). So I thought hmm..maybe my spinning worked so lets go further. We explored a path but it turned out to be a dead end so turned round and doubled back, but when we got back to the orginal track, I turned away from the direction of home, which was again fine with her. I explored a bit up there involving passing several ways of going home, and again, no napping. We went home (ridden about an hour at that point), and on the way home a car passed us, she had to wait for it to pass and got a bit silly and plunging a bit, so I made her wait then carried on. I branched off to trot up a steepish hill because there was an old gateway I wanted a quick look at, Lacey went up willingly enough, we passed it then passed a tree with those funny spikey shell things..I tried to get 1 but dropped it, so circled her to get it again.
This resulted in a rear (only small but on a steep hill it was scary) and tried to bomb off down the hill. I circled her to stop, then went back up to the tree to show her she just couldn't do that. Anyway carried on going home, passed a way to go home and she felt like she wanted to nap, so I quickly pushed her into a canter and she went and was rather strong. Pulled her up, and by the next path to go home I was gonna go, but nearing the corner she felt like she was planning to wizz down it very quickly so I couldn't make her go further. So I halted her which resulted in several rear/spin things until she listened, and then we went home..
I just don't understand, the only time when she's done this since is when we went on like a 4 hour hack and half way through she decided she had enough. Before when she wasn't getting enough energy from her feed she wasn't strong so it can't be that.
Fingers crossed it was just a bad day but any opinions?
She's just had 2 weeks off, first because I was ill, then she had a random spot of heat in her leg for a couple of days which the vet saw and there was nothing wrong, then I went away. I hacked her out on Sunday with no problems what so ever, as enthusiastic as she has been ever since we started feeding her more. Yesterday I schooled her and she was very good, a little sticky in the corners near the end but she always does that, its like her little sign that she's getting tired so then I always just finish off on a good note quickly else she throws a tantrum - she doesn't have a very long concentration span. Then I hacked round for about 40 minutes/a hour just in walk back to the field as she was very sweaty as hasn't been clipped yet. Going up the drive she halted a couple of times and when we passed a track to go back to the yard she did a very small spin. I didn't think anything of it as she's not used to schooling then going for a hack.
I took her for a ride today, wow when I got on she actually stood still! But this was a little forebiding as usually she tries to leave the yard before you're in the saddle..Anyway, set off, when we reached a T, I went left, and right would be going quickly back to the field. She walked okay but felt a little backwards, I relaxed my reins thinking she would be okay though, and she did a little rear and spin. I spun her round in a couple of small circles, asked her to go on and she did. Then she was fine until we passed the next option with a place to go home where there repeated. This spoilt my mood a little so I decided just to go on a short ride not the longish one I had been planning as didn't feel like repeating this by every turning. So we had a trot and a canter, and she was very strong. This surprised me because when she was napping before she was never strong going away from home, but before I went away and she wasn't napping she was a little strong, but I like it that way [lol]
Anyway, so I decided to ride the long way back, so passed the shortest way to go home, in a direction of what could be a much longer ride..Behold Lacey didn't nap (before she would have). So I thought hmm..maybe my spinning worked so lets go further. We explored a path but it turned out to be a dead end so turned round and doubled back, but when we got back to the orginal track, I turned away from the direction of home, which was again fine with her. I explored a bit up there involving passing several ways of going home, and again, no napping. We went home (ridden about an hour at that point), and on the way home a car passed us, she had to wait for it to pass and got a bit silly and plunging a bit, so I made her wait then carried on. I branched off to trot up a steepish hill because there was an old gateway I wanted a quick look at, Lacey went up willingly enough, we passed it then passed a tree with those funny spikey shell things..I tried to get 1 but dropped it, so circled her to get it again.
This resulted in a rear (only small but on a steep hill it was scary) and tried to bomb off down the hill. I circled her to stop, then went back up to the tree to show her she just couldn't do that. Anyway carried on going home, passed a way to go home and she felt like she wanted to nap, so I quickly pushed her into a canter and she went and was rather strong. Pulled her up, and by the next path to go home I was gonna go, but nearing the corner she felt like she was planning to wizz down it very quickly so I couldn't make her go further. So I halted her which resulted in several rear/spin things until she listened, and then we went home..
I just don't understand, the only time when she's done this since is when we went on like a 4 hour hack and half way through she decided she had enough. Before when she wasn't getting enough energy from her feed she wasn't strong so it can't be that.
Fingers crossed it was just a bad day but any opinions?
