Who said mares were easy?!

[JellyBeanSkittle]

Mr S, my gelding, is being a right pain in the rear at the moment and has gone into 'hooligan' mode along with the spring grass

Suggestions for excercises in the school to improve concentration?? We are going from 'beautiful, expressionate dressage hoss' down the long side of the school, to 'bouncy giraffe' because he's spooted a leaf blowing in the wind....

The mare is as quiet as a lamb, you can almost see her rolling her eyes at him sometimes.... Silly Boy.

 

[asommerville]

Same boat darling i have one of each too and i swear amber shakes her head in disgust lol

 

[coss]

my late mare used to watch my gelding be a prat with me and beat him up - no beating up if he was good for me

 

[Littlelegs]

My mare is far too full of her own self importance to ever do something as common as lose concentration. Much better to devote a full session occasionally to do idiotic things, so much classier to put in 100% don't Cha know dahhhling.

 

[sleepykitten]

Had someone come and try my gelding yesterday as he's for sale, went for a hack, said gelding, (described in my ad as pretty much bombproof and never bucks, rears etc) jumped a small patch of mud, and then bucked!!

My mare who I was riding decided this was the cue for p*****g off madly up the field! We managed to get them under control, and I find myself uttering those 5 fateful seller words.........."he's never done that before"!!!!

Arggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!

She hasn't got back to me yet...............