Why are you pleased with your horse at the moment? Just for fun!

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Just thought I'd start off a cheerful thread to remind us how wonderful are beasties really are and to cheer us all up as the nights are continuing to draw in :)

I'll start off - I'm pleased with my horse at the moment because today we finally ticked off the last few goals on the list of everything I've been wanting to achieve with this horse and with my riding in general! The horse showed me once again how honest and genuine he is, he is really one of the best parts of my life, he has a heart made of gold! I'm on cloud 9! :D Thrilled with him!

Feel like now Ive achieved what I've been wanting to I can finally relax and take all the pressure off doing scary things, and just do whatever I feel like, whether that's having a blast round a stubble field, or simply taking him to graze in hand. Yaay! :)

So over to you...why are you pleased/proud of your horse at the moment? Be as gushy as you life ;)

HHF :)
 
I'm very pleased with my new mare, I've broken her all by myself and she is now going sweetly, very trusting and will attempt all I've asked of her. She's been chod and clipped for the first time and didn't move a muscle for either.
 
People may have seen my thread about hacking my 6yo for the first time alone on a long hack but that is why I am so pleased with him! And also today we did a marathon hack with my best friend and her tb mare. Friend wanted to practice doing the gates with her mare as she's nervy with them and my boy stood like a rock, perfectly behaved and didn't panic when friends mare did. Think it really helped her. He used to have a terrible habit of pawing the ground and fidgeting when asked to stand but not anymore!

Shame I go back to uni until Xmas Tomo :( and have to leave him again.
 
I'm pleased with my boy because a year ago you could barely get near him and today I was brushing him all over and cuddling him and realising just how far we have come in the last 14 months. I adore him, I always look at him and cant believe he is actually mine :o
 
He's always been a bit of a pansy, but has taken his role of big brother to the new shetland in his stride, chasing the others away when they try and steal her hay for example!

He started hacking out for the first time in his life (he is 15) this summer and was doing great until a few idiot driver situations scared him to the point he wouldn't leave the drive anymore. Been walking him out in hand and he is really starting to relax and enjoy himself again rather than prancing about on his araby toes blowing and snorting at every single thing imaginable! Gives my arm a break from trying to keep hold of him too ;) and I imagine it won't be long before we are riding out again.

Proud of the new shettie for settling in so well and being such a gem for my three year old son. Pony is also three, and makes it her job to look after him, both on the ground and while he's riding.

They were out hacking the other week when nearby pheasant shooting started. She jumped which gave my son a bit of a fright, and when she heard him crying she slowed right down, you could see the fear in her eyes, the shooting was really close by and so loud, and even though she had her head right up looking for the danger she done so well to be brave for both of them, wee star.

She stands in the stable with her head over his shoulder and falls asleep, they're a perfect match, love her :)
 
I'm so pleased with little mare for settling into hunting when I honestly wasn't sure she would based on last years performance. Shes now golden, finishes the day full of running, and true to form is jumping everything shes pointed at :).

Big mare I'm pleased with our fab jump lesson the other day. We havent jumped properly since August and after realising 1.05m was looking rather huge I put my brave pants on & booked in for a jump lesson. We finished jumping round 1.10m/1.15m and as usual she was a pro, forgave my missers until I got it together, and didnt touch a pole :).

I also have a silly pleased moment with huge baby mare as she was such a brave girl when I trimmed round her muzzle with trimmers and even let me trim a bit of the fuzz off her giant ears as practice for the future, such a good girl :).
 
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In the past two weeks we have

Learnt to ride and lead! 15.3 and 17.3 is quite a challenge but they are both experts now! And neighter put a hoof wrong (touch wood)..... Never though we could do it, especially just myself and two horses with no one on the ground!

I took my 17.3 out by her self and she didn't do anything...just plodded out and back! Massive step forwards as it shows just how much her confidence has improved! (Once upon a time she wouldn't leave the yard)

My boy has had a fantastic season competing and has done so much more than I could have ever dreamed of since coming back from rehab!!!
 
I've only had my new welshie 5 wks. But she has given me all my confidence back

Iget so excited when it's time to ride
So much so that I've always had a calming effect on horses I ride, however not with her, She obviously picks up on my excitement :)

She is just such an angel both in and out of the saddle.

I can't believe she's a welsh chestnut mare !!!
 
Took a baby on the roads for the first time yesterday. Apart from doing the fastest reversing I have ever sat to away from a cow, she was awesome. Pigs, chickens, the big bus... No problems. She was a star :)

Oh, and actually completing my lifetime aim and my New Years resolution in one show - jumping over 5' bareback was the New Years resolution. And then we jumped bigger than me, bareback in a puissance. Epic win of a day:D
 
Ive had a pretty eventful 12 months with my new mare (including two trips to A&E). We've come a long way though from me being too scared to ride her to her quietly working in the school yesterday and trying so hard to do everything i asked. Her flatwork is coming along v nicely (I have an instructor i use every couple of week, which has been so helpful) and i am actually excited about spring/summer next year when we will start to get out and about. More importantly she is now so beautifully behaved - i school in a livery with pony paddocks, one with a lively mare and the other with a section a stallion (whol loves to show off when my mare arrives or duirng sessions) - she doesnt blink. We had such a good session yesterday - she gets things so quickly and seems to quite enjoy the work - i was literally beaming at the end of it!
 
I'm delighted with my horse bought her 6 weeks ago, very green. Our canter was a mess

And in such a short space of time the horse has come on amazing, she tried so hard.

She is away to do her 1st novice test mid dec she had improved that much that quick

She amazes me every time I ride her.
 
I'm so pleased with my horse he has totally restored my confidence and took me over 3 ft the other day he's a total superstar and we are going to our first shipbuilding competition on sunday (as a child we I wa out every weekend competing up to 1.10 but having kids and a 3 year break before having children totally reduced my riding ability to that of complete novice) he is my horse of a life time (except my little 13.2 jumping pony) and it is because of this little man that I have the confidence an drive to take him cross country next spring.

Even if he can be an ars in. the stable lol
Edited to say show jumping not ship building stupid auto correct
 
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I am so pleased with donovan, he was broken to harness in March, we are now competing carriage driving, he is doing really well, and has taken to it like a duck to water!
He has also given me a reason to get back out there, and I now have the confidence to drive out on the road, something I could never see myself doing again.
 
I am pleased with my horse as he amazes me everyday!! He is only 4 and a half, been backed only a few months, and is a total genuine boy!
I clipped him for the first time last week, and he was a total star! I intended to just do a bib, thinking if might not like it, and he was so good, I took out half his neck and all under his belly. He didn't even flinch when I had the clipper by his head... and they weren't quiet clippers!!! :D
 
Bobbly said:
I'm very pleased with my new mare, I've broken her all by myself and she is now going sweetly, very trusting and will attempt all I've asked of her. She's been chod and clipped for the first time and didn't move a muscle for either.
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Oh Bobbly, that's wonderful! Please, please put a picture up of the pretty girl.

I'm thrilled with my boy because despite not having had any exercise for two weeks (pulled his glute doing a sit down skid in the field when some numpty let their new horse out without showing it the fenceline so fences ended up anihilated), he has been a chilled out cookie - I put it down to helping his slightly sore tummy with Brewers Yeast - he's like a different person. I've been walking him out in hand to keep him moving when the weather has forced them into the sand paddocks, and he hasn't even spooked. Not bad for a Grade A worrier who shakes at the mere thought of shadows.
 
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Because he's been a star recently :)

He was almost foot-perfect out on hacks and when we had a terrifying moment (reins caught on a gate and pulled bridle off!) he was so good! He just stood and waited for me to get his bridle and put it back on!

He also did this ^^

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My little cob has just come in for the winter so he is full of beans but still super polite and has brakes - it will all get too much in a month or so when the weather stops us getting out enough or stops him getting enough grass (hay is like rocket fuel) and he will become a spooking little devil but I am just enjoying this phase for now.
 
I'm pleased with my mare at the moment because 3 weeks ago, she moved from my quiet yard at home (where she has lived for nearly all her life) 5 hours north to a new busy livery yard. She's settled in so well, behaving like a star when I took her hunting and then winning her novice dressage test a week later.
I just love her so much. I was dubious about bringing her up, thinking it would be easier to sell her, as I didn't think she would settle on livery. However she makes me smile every day, she's such a star!
 
My mare hadn't been rode all week because I had the flu, went up yesterday feeling a bit rubbish and left happy:) She must have picked up on my mood because she came straight over when I went to catch her, stood still doing her bridle (she usually reverses) and then we went for a hack down a new road with four farms by ourselves. When I got her she was literally terrified of any farm machinery, as in would almost lay down if she heard/saw a tractor. Ended up passing three parked tractors with nothing but a wide berth and a look and me singing christmas songs like an idiot to keep her calm, until we passed a farm where a tractor was moving bales behind a fence so she could only see the bales rising every now and again. I was cool as a cucumber and she was at this point very nervous but dealing with it until the complete idiot in the mitsubushi warrior with a tarpaulin strapped to the back came revving up behind and flew past with about a foots room between us. Bless her like, she shot forward then froze when I got unbalanced before marching on when I asked. Think my nerves were more shattered than hers after that, but she carried on like nothing happened:D
 
The last time I brought him in to the stable he walked past two huge bright yellow trucks parked on the yard without so much as a second glance.
 
I am VERY HAPPY as my little rescue boy has not had a head collar on for about 4 years !! -- We managed this weekend to put a head collar on bring him out - groom him de-matt his mane and this is the big one Pick both frt feet - As I have been told the farrier has to "twitch" him to do his feet, I have never seen this done!! - We have had him 3 weeks now I am so pleased :) and proud of my son also for the time he is spending with him.
 
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Thanks OP for this cheery thread it a bit doom and gloom on here this morning .
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Yes. This!

I am always pleased with my horse because she is an absolute gem, I could sing her praises for pages and pages but I will spare you that and give you the abridge version :)

She is a good equine citizen. She is 17 and has mild COPD and a touch of arthritis but still enjoys her work. She can safely take a total novice out on a hack one day and yet is forward going to give a more experienced rider a great time at a fun ride or hunt ( if the jumps are optional or under 2ft3 and the ground is right) She is a steady Eddy to accompany the most spooky hacking companion and keeps her head if everyone else is fizzy and silly. She can make anyone feel like they can ride a horse but you can't forget she is very clever, very tolerant and actually she's doing a lot of it for you.
 
I am pleased with my horse because she is 20, sound, and wonderful and I have had her for 15 years.

And earlier last week, we got gritted.

We were hacking along the road and I saw the gritter approaching. I rode up onto the pavement to give him more room, but the pavement there is quite narrow and the driveways all have walls, so you can't go anywhere further. Usually the gritting lorries turn off their gritters when they pass you. However, when the front of the truck reached us, he was still gritting and I thought, "Oh, sh *** , he's not gonna turn his thing off and we're going to get sprayed with grit. Hold onto your butts." I just took a contact and hoped she wouldn't get so freaked that we'd end up in the next county. We were duly gritted. All my horse did was stop and look down at her feet, as if to say, "What the hell!?" And then carried on as if nothing had happened. What a good girl!

The lorry passed us once or twice more on that hack, but I made sure to give the driver The Look when he approached and he turned his gritter off. I think they are supposed to when they pass horses, dogs, cyclists, etc., but he must have forgotten on that first pass. Oops. But I felt very lucky that my horse has her sh ** together enough to not panic at such mishaps.
 
As we are now on our winter routine the boy starts to get abit fresh. Had him 7 years and it's the same every year. We get the bucking when told to do something he does not want too, we get the napping when i ask him to go a way he does not want when out hacking, we also get the running off when leading in-hand to the arena when get thinks i'm distracted.

Both these things he has tried to do in the last two days ha ha, so predictable, however, i am very pleased with us as a partnership because last year (the first year of taking him on as my main ride from my daughter) these things terrified me, but this year i have been more in control and he has given up alot quicker, plus they have not scared me and i accept that this is his winter party trick.

Nawty boy :-)
 
Because he's the most wonderful wolly teddy bear with his thick black winter coat and over the weekend he behaved perfectly going for a short hack down the lane including going past galloping horses in fields and pheasants suddenly flying up out of the hedge and he's only 31/2 just backed.
 
Im pleased with my mare because shes happy. I can honestly say that Ive never seen her happier in the four years Ive owned her. She literally has a smile on her face. I put her on a joint supplement over the summer, changed her feed to Thunderbrook and give her something for her gut and its made all the difference. That depressive edge she had has gone. If shes happy then Im happy. Love that horse so much:)
 
I am so pleased with my big boy because.......

He is no longer scared of cows after 8 weeks of us owning him but can walk or ride right past them in the farm without a problem

I have hacked him out a few times, once on my own and brought him home to our house, and he was perfect every time

He is a calm big thing, who is great in the school and is working beautifully

He was jumping in my daughter's lesson yesterday and really looked after her - he is 18.2 and she is 13....but they make a great pair

He follows me around like a big dog without a lead rein when my son (9) is on him, walking him round to cool off

He knocks my crochet hat off, with deliberate intent, many times....think he is trying to tell me something lol

He is my first horse and I adore him!
 
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