What would put you off a horse however much you loved it???

Hate bolters, can work through most stuff but bolting flips my panic switch ever since I got thrown off a crazy youngster and cracked a vertebra. I've been bolted with once since that occasion and although I continued to ride the horse that did it (was a reschool job) I was a nervous wreck every time. Stupid really as she never did it again but I just have a phobia now.

Also would not want to own a door banger. It is one of those vices that gets right under my skin and makes me really cross. Not helpful to me or the horse.
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I had a bucker not that i realised when she arrived and luckily she was on trail at the time so she went back after ditching me into the wall of the indoor school, not nice coming at you head first! And i was pretty good a staying on normally! She went back couldnt cope with that habit!
Rosie would bolt if she got scared of something which normally i didnt mind as i knew she would stop!
 
I've never really ridden a bucker or rearer, and I don't think I'd want to!! My own mare used to canter on the roads every time I took her out which was downright scary (turned out her previous owner only road her on the roads and cantered her everywhere). I do know from painful experience that I would sell a horse that was a persistent refuser at jumps, the horse in question was physically fine, but he had this nasty trick of stopping dead, dropping his shoulder and side stepping at a jump, sending his rider flying. He was clearly doing it deliberately cos he thought it was funny, and one time a girl managed to stay on, so he lay down and rolled to get her off.

Oh and there was a horse who was cold backed - that was nasty, he lay down [in a cobbled yard] and rolled with me up once, nearly broke my ankle...
 
Bought a hardened bolter sold him as an medium/advanced dressage horse.
Mare came to me as a rearer, sorted that out, son had a pop sorted him out as well.
I really really hate being bronked off after a fence and that's about all.
 
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God knows. She's actually been diagnosed with severe soft tissue injuries inside the hoof capsule in both front feet. She's turned away 'til next spring with a pretty poor prognosis for recovery. If she's still lame, claim LOU and try to loan her as a brood mare or PTS. If she's sound I suppose I start trying again to get her safe to ride although I don't know how much more my nerves and my bones can take.
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She certainly won't be sold on, and she won't be enjoying a life-long cushy retirement at my expense.
 
Other than serious confirmational faults or medical conditions (really of any sort, I wouldn't consider a horse with COPD, history of lami etc) then the only behavioural thing that would put me off is serious rearing and bby serious I mean when they pass a 30 - 45 degree angle and it goes from screw you to I'm gonna kill you bitch
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wouldn't have one of them ina million years. Little rears I can cope with as there are way to work with evasive rearers but when they start going vertical they is little reasoning with them.
I have a bolter and it's not as bad as I though it would be, I had a broncer and he taught me to hold on for dear life when appropriate. And bucking doesn't really fuss me unless it's one after the other, after the other, after the other then it get tiresome and a tad sore on the old back.
 
my hate is nappiness, i dont mean hanging to his mates/entrance/backin off the leg, i mean proper nappiness!! can smell a true napper a mile off, dont like them at all!!
 
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If it was my own and it had any problems I couldn't deal with (rearing, "nasty" bucking/broncing, throwing on ground, serious and dangerous bolting) if I couldn't get through it but horse was otherwise healthy and happy I would retire it.

Even if you had just spent £5K + buying it, put your heart into fixing it, spent a fortune in vets exams and bootcamp for it, you knew it was talented, you want to ride and compete, and it was under eight years old?

I doubt it.

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God knows. She's actually been diagnosed with severe soft tissue injuries inside the hoof capsule in both front feet. She's turned away 'til next spring with a pretty poor prognosis for recovery. If she's still lame, claim LOU and try to loan her as a brood mare or PTS. If she's sound I suppose I start trying again to get her safe to ride although I don't know how much more my nerves and my bones can take.
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She certainly won't be sold on, and she won't be enjoying a life-long cushy retirement at my expense.

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I said if it was otherwise healthy and happy - I wouldn't class your mare as that.
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But to answer your question, yes, if I was in the situation you describe I would retire the horse, and not sell/loan or PTS, provided that the horse was "field sound" i.e. not in pain from just being a horse in the field.
I was in that situation a few years back but with a 6 year old and different injury. Sadly he didn't come through but I was prepared to retire and keep him as an expensive field ornament, and accept that I wouldn't ride more often then the odd scrounged ride on a friend's horse.

I completely accept that that isn't the way that everybody would do it and am not going to get all holier than thou on you.
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Well i think everything you've all said you wouldn't put up with my horse does!!
She rears and has been over backwards, she bolts, she bites, she kicks, is very dangerous to hack and has a very dodgy temperament in general! What can i say, i must be mental but i have had her since she was a yearling and she has always been like that so i just love her for what she is, a complete cow bag. The only good thing is that nothing really bothers me and also she dosen't buck so there is a glimmer of hope!
 
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She rears and has been over backwards, she bolts, she bites, she kicks, is very dangerous to hack and has a very dodgy temperament in general! What can i say, i must be mental but i have had her since she was a yearling and she has always been like that so i just love her for what she is, a complete cow bag. The only good thing is that nothing really bothers me and also she dosen't buck so there is a glimmer of hope!

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If I'd had it since it was a yearling I would expect far better behaviour from it than that! All these flaws are things I would expect to have to put up with in a horse that had been trained incorrectly in some way, a well trained horse should never resort to rearing bucking or bolting unless it's in pain.
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