Time to move on??? (Sorry a bit long and self pitying)

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Fiorano

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Had a terrible day today!
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I have owned my welsh boy for three years now, he's 12, and he has taught me loads. He is my second horse and we do a little bit of everything, little being the word when it comes to my jumping! However, my dressage it the thing I love and up to now we have had a really good partnership in local unaffiliated competitions. He has always been spooky and sometimes difficult and hard work to ride but today he excelled himself spinning, rearing and bucking his way around the warm-up areana.
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Didn't get me off though! The judges comments can be summed up in one phrase: 'very onward bound' which otherwise means, galloping around like a demented nutter! Don't think I can take much more of his bad attitude and am thinking maybe it's time to sell up and move on!!
 
Sounds like you have done well in the past with him at comps,shame to give up!Sure it not down to the weather and spring??I know most horses turn into pillocks at this time of yr,lol,even mine is daft and he is so laid back normally he could fall over
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I'd give him another chance before giving up and as said above a bit of spring grass can give them springs on their feet!
 
Try lunging him either athome or at the show before mounting and working in. Lunge A LOT even if he gives a bit of a lack lustre performance after.You will be able to adjust with experience of him.
 
Thanks everyone. Sorry to sound so negative in that post. Was really feeling sorry for myself. Yep have given him oxyshot as a calmer last time out and it was brilliant. He spat it back in my face this time...lol. I will try the lunging though, didn't think of that. Went to see him today and he is so cute, licking my leg and being all gorgeous! He knows all the right buttons to press to make me a pushover!!! Feeling much better and I will compete the little bu**er again!
 
Oh don't give up on him yet. I had a Sec D he used to muck about at shows, could never warm him up, but as soon as we went into the arena he knew his job and just got on with it. He was very difficult when I first had him but got better over the years and we had a great trusting partnership. I kept him and competed him until I had to have him pts at 23.

You are always going to have a bad day now and again, I'm sure next time he'll be better.
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