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i am currently breaking mine she was a July foal and i was in no rush we are currently happily walking and trotting around the school learning to go forwards !!

will hack her out in a few weeks then turn her away till March next year?

then next year my aim will be Addington Young Horse show with her ......

What are the rest of yours doing or will be doing?
 
Mine are schooling and hacking out alone, having a good canter on sundays :) Mine are 4 in jan and march so early babies!!!

Love this age, how is yours going??!! What is yours? :)
 
Mine was broken at the end of the summer and now has been working away quite happily and hacking out and about and working away in the school.He has joined the ranks of having canters up the stubble fields with his friend. We are going off to an in hand party next weekend as he has never been out to one and then he will be getting fully rugged up, access to lots of haylage and I will see him again next Spring!!
After that I have no idea what my plans are for him. We will see what frame of mind he will be in at springtime as it has been a very very easy road so far!

Good Luck with yours.:)
 
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Mine was backed in the middle of the summer. Another early baby born in Feb. She did about six weeks learning the basics in the school and short hacks off road in company. She's been turned away since July and I will start again at the end of December. Itching to get going with her!!!
 
i know its hard isnt it but i had to keep stopping my self from backing her earlier - she actually had a wolf tooth so i didnt book the appointment till September to perposly stop myself doing anything sooner !
 
Currently nothing, as i have now turned her away until Feb next year.

She was broken at 18month!!!!:eek::eek:

Before you all freak she is an ex-race horse and raced on the flat as a 2yrold.

She is a March foal, so early.

This spring summer, we did loads of hacking, learning to go forwards, backwards when asked moving away from my leg side ways for drains and gates etc....

We can open and close gates now. :D

She did a fair bit of in hand showing, local and county and was placed everytime out.

We did Adult camp twice, once in June and the in October with out RC, there we did some flat schooling and some little coloured poles, including some skinnies. :p

Both times there was a little comp at the end, we did the Walk, trot dressage both times and won it. she did a half foot show jumping the first time, second time we did xc schooling the day before so i called it a week after the dressage comp and didn't do the showjumping.
Schooled first time ever xc did amazingly.

Came back from that had a week coming down and now all shoes off having a holiday.....which she is hating. she loves being ridden, using all the tricks in the book to keep her happy now!!!!:rolleyes:

Next year our aim is for a BE80 (T) at the end of the season before having a slightly shorter holiday next winter.
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liannexsx said:
hows it going with her tinks? i have a balou du rouet 18 month filly. interested to hear about another temperament wise. im wishing the next 2 years away lol
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I love her she has been a complete angel we have done her ourselves at home too!! I do think it really does depend on the handling you do from a foal to be honest if i had left her in a field till 3yo i think i would of been on the floor but she trust me and has been as good as gold x

I would breed another one any day x
 
Sammii819 said:
Currently nothing, as i have now turned her away until Feb next year.

She was broken at 18month!!!!:eek::eek:

Before you all freak she is an ex-race horse and raced on the flat as a 2yrold.

She is a March foal, so early.

This spring summer, we did loads of hacking, learning to go forwards, backwards when asked moving away from my leg side ways for drains and gates etc....

We can open and close gates now. :D

She did a fair bit of in hand showing, local and county and was placed everytime out.

We did Adult camp twice, once in June and the in October with out RC, there we did some flat schooling and some little coloured poles, including some skinnies. :p

Both times there was a little comp at the end, we did the Walk, trot dressage both times and won it. she did a half foot show jumping the first time, second time we did xc schooling the day before so i called it a week after the dressage comp and didn't do the showjumping.
Schooled first time ever xc did amazingly.

Came back from that had a week coming down and now all shoes off having a holiday.....which she is hating. she loves being ridden, using all the tricks in the book to keep her happy now!!!!:rolleyes:

Next year our aim is for a BE80 (T) at the end of the season before having a slightly shorter holiday next winter.
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I didnt think you could do BE till they were 5yo x
 
My 3 year old is a June baby. He was broken in summer, walk, trot and canter in the school and we went down the road and back to experience cars etc. I then turned him away in September to allow him to grow and fill out. I will probably start lunging him again in December time and then he will come back in to ridden work in Spring. CANNOT WAIT for that!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
Sammii819 - Are you saying you have done that much with a 3yr old? Or do you mean your horse is 4? I do hope it is as doing all that at 3 yrs old is not good for a youngster however young it might have been broken in previously. Also your RC shouldnt actually be letting you compete a 3yr old........
 
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Sammii819 - Are you saying you have done that much with a 3yr old? Or do you mean your horse is 4? I do hope it is as doing all that at 3 yrs old is not good for a youngster however young it might have been broken in previously. Also your RC shouldnt actually be letting you compete a 3yr old........
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She is three, most of what she has done is inhand and the competing part of it was within the camp not an open real comp just those six adults that went to camp....not a real one.
If she was any good at racing she'd have been still going flat out in gallop, so i don't think what she has done this season in a few months is that bad, it's not as though she is hammered around.

In fact i have done a lot less circles and things that do damage joints then some others who have lunged and schooled.

We have had her joints looked at and scanned and she has fused, and vetted to be worked.

and TBH do you think these horses that compete in 4year old championships eventing and otherwise, were sat doing nothing as a 3 year old!!!

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Pretty much the same. Mine were backed a month ago and just did 10 days of going forwards. Now they have been turned away. Plans are to bring them back in in March and then they'll go to a chap down the road for a few weeks. Then they'll come back and hack, school, go to some baby shows and then will be put up for sale :)
 
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Actually i know a lot of people who break in dressage horses to go on to do the 4yr old classes and they hardly do anything in their 3 yr old year - and no where near as much as you have done. But each to their own and aslong as your vet says it is ok im sure its fine.....
 
Mines currently being a fat hairy dirty pony! Shes been on holiday for a month or so now, will be coming back into work in January.
I backed her in the late summer, hacked her out, walked trotted and started to develop the basics of cantering out on hacks with Queenie acting as a nanny. I took her to one show, she was brilliant and we trotted round the clear round (And went clear! :) ).
 
Nothing yet except leaving her to do some growing. She's been out all summer and is now coming in at night. She had a good Futurity earlier this year and has just been left since then to grow. Now I can't decide whether to get her professionally backed in December or try advertising her now unbroken so that someone can do it their own way.
 
I've got a 2yo quarter horse that is just being started...they're generally started in their 2yo summer, but he's been left late because his previous owner had been seriously ill, but he's been fairly well handled.
Most of the other 2yo QHs are trotting and cantering under saddle now, then they'll be turned away over the winter, but he's a bit remedial by comparison!
We're just at the lunging stage...one interesting point that anyone who has yearlings etc might want to bear in mind is that he had clearly only been led from the nearside, so found having the trainer on his right a bit confusing.
He's a very bright chap, and thankfully very laid back, so he's worked it all out now, but it's definitely worth teaching your babies to lead from both sides!

We spend a massive amount of time 'sacking out' ie throwing ropes, saddlecloths over them so that they're spookproof, but he's proving easier than most - he only started wearing a hood at the weekend and he already stands like a lamb when you pull it over his head!

As a 3yo he'll be shown in hand and ridden around at the shows to soak up the atmosphere, before maybe doing a ridden show class at the end of the season.
 
my boy was a three year old june for first year i just hacked out regulary walks , he had a few sessions over trotting poles walking and a few jumps and that was it no trotting or cantering apart from that , thats what i did and we always hacked out solo because i had no one to hack out with
 
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Actually i know a lot of people who break in dressage horses to go on to do the 4yr old classes and they hardly do anything in their 3 yr old year - and no where near as much as you have done. But each to their own and aslong as your vet says it is ok im sure its fine.....
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Same as there are alot that do more than i did with a 3yr old.....TBH she hasn't done much under saddle, mainly hacking and about four hours schooling altogether spread out over the whole summer and some small jumps, again spread out over the summer.
I have another three year old that won't be doing anything until he is at the end of his four year old year as he is so inmature in his body.
Have three well respected trainers that have had no problem in what i have done, in fact i have done less then they have suggested.


Anyway not falling out about this with you :D We will have to agree to disagree on this one. :)
 
I don't think 3 year olds should be doing too much, mainly hacking about and learning the basics, with regard to young horse classes (in particular dressage) of those horses that compete in these classes, how many do you hear of later on in their life...not many.. due to the fact their joints or their brains are shot to pieces.
Sorry.
I learnt the hard way how little you should be doing with a young horse, I bought a horse ( as a teenager) that was sold to me as a 4 year old so I backed him and started working him, he turned out to be a 3 year old, bu which time he had done some comps etc( this was before passports), the horse was put down at the age of 9 due to navicular and changes in his feet that made him lame. I am 100% sure it was due too much work too young. I never forgave myself.
 
well i will be doing the 4yo YH at Addington but this is it she will go out and do a few clear rounds, BN and Discovery !! I wont do the Scope one as i think its a fix and i will then leave her till she is 5yo and do some indoors then hopefully have her at newcomer level
 
charlie76 said:
I don't think 3 year olds should be doing too much, mainly hacking about and learning the basics, with regard to young horse classes (in particular dressage) of those horses that compete in these classes, how many do you hear of later on in their life...not many.. due to the fact their joints or their brains are shot to pieces.
Sorry.
I learnt the hard way how little you should be doing with a young horse, I bought a horse ( as a teenager) that was sold to me as a 4 year old so I backed him and started working him, he turned out to be a 3 year old, bu which time he had done some comps etc( this was before passports), the horse was put down at the age of 9 due to navicular and changes in his feet that made him lame. I am 100% sure it was due too much work too young. I never forgave myself.
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I agree, mine has done a lot of different things but not a lot of any of it, she is now having four months off before starting again as a four year old, when hacking back from doing some jumping etc....(where we only jump for twenty minutes and most of that is flat warm up, i get off her and walk her in hand back.
I think it all depends on the horse TBH, my other one is really inmature and won't do anything for ages but Lady isn't like that, i plan on her still being ridden in her twenties so i'm taking it slow, had her vetted for work before i started due to her having raced and her age etc....
 
Wasnt falling out :D Was just intriguied that you had taken a 3yr old to RC camp thats all! Yours must be very well behaved!

I have a 2 1/2 yr old who i will be backing myself next summer - i only hope he is as well behaved, lol!
 
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