Tell me I'm being an over protective mum!

Tonight my 4 year old baby is being ridden by someone else for the first time and I've got really mixed feelings about it.
I've damaged my back so am really struggling at the moment riding as much as I'd like and Hovis needs (I'm getting the results of my mri scan tomorrow).
My instructor and YM suggested that one of the ladys she teaches could ride Hovis for me one night a week in her lesson. The lesson is 1-2-1 not a group lesson and the lady seems like a very good rider. My instructor has said she won't do anymore with him than I'm doing, won't push it and that i can watch.
There's a part of me thinking this will be really good for him and help improve his schooling but a part of me feels really funny about it. I trust my instructor implictly but I worry about someone else teaching him bad habits or even worse getting him working better than i do. I feel like a parent sending their kids off to school for the first time!! Please someone tell me I'm being daft!!
 
Chill - it will be good for him. And lovely for you to see him from the ground. You'll get such a good idea of what he looks like under saddle - and how he's improved since you first started riding him.

I love watching others ride my horse. A friend jumped him over Christmas, and it was soo fab to see.

Enjoy it.
 
Ditto , If shes a good enough rider then thats great , Its great that you have someone good enough to ride , be taught by your instructor AND you get to watch .

Really , I think there is no need to worry
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He'll be fine!! Constantly supervised by you and your instructor, so if anything happens you dont like you can call a halt to it!

Its good for horses to be ridden by other riders to pervent them becoming set in their ways, the same way its good for us to ride other horses!
 
I've got someone riding my horse for me at the moment as I can't ride and to begin with it was difficult for me, but I have got used to it now and I do think that it has done my horse some good having to be a bit more adaptable.
If you are injured then there is no harm in trying it out, if after one lesson you don't think it's doing your horse any good then you can always stop it, but you might be pleasantly surprised!
 
As a p.s - someone is going to start exercising Thumper for me two days a week from next week. I am a little aprehensive about it - but it benefits the horse (if not my pocket). She's a very competent rider, and my horse will be kept fit until the nights are light enough for me to ride. So I do understand how you feel to a point.
 
I know just how you are feeling, my instructor did some schooling for me with my four year old a little while back and the first time she roe even though i was there i was like a protective mother in overdrive, but we both got so much out of it , I got to see him from the ground and he got some amazing schooling.... Sounds like a good solution until you are fully back up and running...
 
I understand how you feel completely! I think I'd feel quite jealous if someone else rode my horse!
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I do know that as long as they were a competent rider he'd be fine - he wouldn't put up with being jabbed in the mouth or anything anyway
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I do think if you've got someone that is competent enough then it can really do both the horse and you some good, and in a lesson it's even better, because the work will be constructive, not just plodding round the school gettting bad habits
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