emiliaa
Well-Known Member
Hi everyone 👋
Sorry I wasn’t sure which forum to post this one but I am struggelling with hacking my horse. Let me explain him first, he is a 10 year old KWPN and is my first horse (schoolmaster) he is the most amazing horse schooling and jumping etc but I am having a really hard time hacking him.
On roads we can go for a bit but after about 10 minutes he decides that he doesn’t want to go any further and will do a mini rear and spin back. I can push him forwards a few times but after he has repeated this over and over I eventually cannot control him anymore and I either get off and walk back or just walk back. Fields are also an issue, similar to roads I can walk him around the field for about 10 minutes but after that he will get very strong and he does this thing where he puts his head down to eat grass and when I lift it up he bucks. He is no better in company we were walking behind a horse in the field and out of nowhere he springs into canter and takes himself off, setting the other horse off too. I really would like to fix this as hacking is becoming a big fear of mine so I was just wondering if anyone else has had these issues and what helped. My mum suggested getting a stronger bit just for hacking (he is just in a regular snaffle right now) But I cant see that making a difference?
I tried attaching a video that is an example of what he does on here but it said that the file is too big so I uploaded it to youtube
Thanks, Mimi
Sorry I wasn’t sure which forum to post this one but I am struggelling with hacking my horse. Let me explain him first, he is a 10 year old KWPN and is my first horse (schoolmaster) he is the most amazing horse schooling and jumping etc but I am having a really hard time hacking him.
On roads we can go for a bit but after about 10 minutes he decides that he doesn’t want to go any further and will do a mini rear and spin back. I can push him forwards a few times but after he has repeated this over and over I eventually cannot control him anymore and I either get off and walk back or just walk back. Fields are also an issue, similar to roads I can walk him around the field for about 10 minutes but after that he will get very strong and he does this thing where he puts his head down to eat grass and when I lift it up he bucks. He is no better in company we were walking behind a horse in the field and out of nowhere he springs into canter and takes himself off, setting the other horse off too. I really would like to fix this as hacking is becoming a big fear of mine so I was just wondering if anyone else has had these issues and what helped. My mum suggested getting a stronger bit just for hacking (he is just in a regular snaffle right now) But I cant see that making a difference?
I tried attaching a video that is an example of what he does on here but it said that the file is too big so I uploaded it to youtube
Thanks, Mimi