madhector
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mmmm not sure if plucky is the right word...down right crazy maybe
Well....I got back on Jerry....
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TheresaW
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Oh well done. Am really pleased it went so well for you. Hope the lesson is a good one.
zoesophie
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Well done you for persevearing (sp
) Theres no stopping you now - hopefully!!
Gingernags
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mmmm not sure if plucky is the right word...down right crazy maybe
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Well I'm sure someone said the quirky ones are often the best - I guess it applies to riders too!
Hopefully he's learned a lesson. Have to say even though she's a saint now, Asti went through a rearing phase as I was riding her away about a month or so after backing her. Just started out of the blue and would go up near vertical on the road.
So I took her to a small field someone let me "borrow" and this was a boiling hot day - and I lunged her til she was ready to drop - then got on. We'd been having issues lunging too - she'd go from standing still at my side, to a flat out gallop - trying to knock me over and swipe the lunge rein off me, but this day I was having none of it.
She has never reared since and I never had a lunging problem after that day either. I think its right, they learn the unpleasant consequences and hard work from it!
Anyway, well done and hope thats an end of it for you!
mmmm not sure if plucky is the right word...down right crazy maybe
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Well I'm sure someone said the quirky ones are often the best - I guess it applies to riders too!
Hopefully he's learned a lesson. Have to say even though she's a saint now, Asti went through a rearing phase as I was riding her away about a month or so after backing her. Just started out of the blue and would go up near vertical on the road.
So I took her to a small field someone let me "borrow" and this was a boiling hot day - and I lunged her til she was ready to drop - then got on. We'd been having issues lunging too - she'd go from standing still at my side, to a flat out gallop - trying to knock me over and swipe the lunge rein off me, but this day I was having none of it.
She has never reared since and I never had a lunging problem after that day either. I think its right, they learn the unpleasant consequences and hard work from it!
Anyway, well done and hope thats an end of it for you!
Silgram
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Great news. Hope you have a fantastic lesson.
severnmiles
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MH, do you think maybe the hanging cheek has been pinching him? Fulmers and hanging cheeks can pinch the corners of young horses mouths and cause rearing and allsorts of naughty behaviour....could be a thought. I had a problem with a 4y.o trak and it was caused by a fulmer, once we put bit guards on it was a case of problem sorted!
Glad he went well!
Glad he went well!
madhector
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maybe... will stick with the gag and snaffle from now on just in case