Micropony
Well-Known Member
"Bold", "nasty", words like that have no place in the head of someone working with a young horse. From your description of what you did with him on Saturday, you were on his back for about three times as long as you should have been, and chose to use that time in a foolish and damaging way.
I do not have as much personal experience of producing youngsters as you claim to have, but mine has never been treated like yours and so has never felt the need to behave like yours has. However I have watched lots of youngsters being produced for sale, i.e. with commercial pressure to sell, and none of them have been pressured like yours either.
Either you are being badly advised or you are not listening to the advice you are being given. Either way, give your poor horse a break!
Why not take up motocross or something instead?
I do not have as much personal experience of producing youngsters as you claim to have, but mine has never been treated like yours and so has never felt the need to behave like yours has. However I have watched lots of youngsters being produced for sale, i.e. with commercial pressure to sell, and none of them have been pressured like yours either.
Either you are being badly advised or you are not listening to the advice you are being given. Either way, give your poor horse a break!
Why not take up motocross or something instead?