Deja Vu
Not again Radar! We were out for a hack and Radar was nervy about being away from home and quite uncomfortable to sit on. I turned him away from home because he was fidgetting and fussing to get home quicker, but then he was dawdling. I asked him to trot but I must just have touched him with the spurs that I stupidly didn't take off my boots after schooling Jazz yesterday. He went into canter, and he cantered a good 200 yards back down the road. I wouldn't exactly say that he was bolting, but I wouldn't exactly say I could stop him either !
The problem was that at the end of the road, back the way we came, he would have made a very sharp turn left and careered down the one in four hill we had just come up. I was pretty sure he would be unable to do that and stay on his feet, so it was stop-him or bale-out time. I managed to divert him slightly into a well-placed carpark entrance and point him at a big stone wall with a mass of trees right the other side. He stopped. Whew.
He is one big panicker, that's for sure!
In contrast, Jazz and I had a delightfully quiet hack this morning!
C
posted by cptrayes @ 5:43 PM
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You have a lot more nerve than I do. Thank goodness you found a place to "pull into." Convenience parking with a wall, no less. Good luck, that.
I hate riding where there is no place to circle in case the horse does start to get out of control. No more roads for me...of course around here the roads are horribly unsafe to ride on as cars and big trucks zoom by all the time.
Seems Radar needs some more outings before he starts his hunting career. Or do you just like living in the "fast lane?" (Forget it, I already know the answer. *lol*)
Hunting will do him the world of good Jean :-)
Wassup Claire???
Do you ride in the pelham for hacking?
That eek feeling. Was it a question of balance, when they are just using the bit to lean on? Still very uncomfortable and definitely one of the less pleasant aspects of a riding out a young horse. But at least he answered the leg aid!
I tried a pelham on him schooling one day ML and if anything he was easier to control in a snaffle.
It was balance, as you say Judith. He loses his balance it scares him and he runs and loses his balance more and then he's just leaning on the bit and no aid gets through to him. He's not trying to be bad, he's just a big panicker.
C
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