Turning the corner?

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Have any of you ever thought you'd never 'get there' with your horse?

I've had a tough time with Bamboozle over the last few months. I've hit the deck numerous times and we just weren't getting on. I could honestly have described her as the most ungenuine horse I've ever worked with. The plan was to iron out her major issues and then sell her on...
Thankfully we seem to have 'clicked' at long last and seem to be friends, now if I ask her to do something she'll try for me rather than just giving me the two fingers.

I thought that even if I made progress with her I'd never be able to trust her, but even after everything (broncing, napping, bolting, kickng, you name it!) I'm getting there. My faith in her is growing everyday.

Have any of you ever been in this situation? And if you currently do have an awful horse, there is light at the end of the tunnel, even if it seems a bl**dy long way away!
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when I got my first horse for the first couple of years I thought she didn't like me. She wasn't naughty I just felt like she was never pleased to see me. I then found out that her saddle didn't fit her properly, we moved yards and she changed overnight! Now she gallops over to me when I go to get her in from the field with a whinny and is always really happy to see me. Its even been commented on by her vet and farrier how attached to me she is!
 
Yes it took my horse forever to settle and start to calm down and trust and listen to me. I would say we probably turned the corner after about a year !!! Trouble was, I loved him through it all and was determined to get there with him...soppy I know!
He would battle against me at all times both in hand and ridden, but to be honest a lot was down to getting his routine and care right and not putting him into stressy situations too much to begin with. Once I had got the stabling, routine and rug issues right and got on with what he enjoyed...hacking for miles...we were sorted pretty much! He can still be a so and so but less so and will at least now listen and not get his knickers in a total twist! I put a lot of that down to be Welsh though!
 
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ab123 and Pottamus, the awful thing was with Boo was that I'd owned her almost 2 years when our troubles began, so it's not as though she hadn't settled.
When I first got her she was unhealthy, with a VERY backward thinking approach to life, mostly from being pushed to hard too young (raced as a 2yo, we bought her at 3). She was nappy and naughty, but we got through it and I had a lovely little horse. Then she was kicked which caused her to have months off work, and it was only when bringing her back in that I had all the trouble.
She'd reverted back to everything she did when first got her, and more
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, but seemed to be doing it with malice this time
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But heyho, we're out the other side of it now
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Teasel, I find myself really looking forward to riding her now! And I'm getting the chance to work on her way of going rather than just trying to avert a crisis all the time.
'That' bond is definitely coming, but whether there's room on the pedestal with Tills and Cybele I don't know! But knowing Boo she'll shove her way in there somehow
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