Seraphina
26th Dec 2007, 12:41 AM
So here is (copy and pasted the history on my horse and I)
I basically would love some ideas on how to start getting him to play and have fun with me in the menage, because tomorrow being boxing day I am hoping it may be quiet at the yard and I might be able to get 15 mins or so of the school to myself so I can let him loose. I need ideas, as all I know how to do is use the lunge whip to make him go faster. I am totally clueless but very keen. I am a big fan of NH.
HISTORY:
The basic background of me and my horse is that after 3 riding lessons I took on a previously abused 17.33hh warmblood gelding who had lost all faith in humans. I got his trust, and although leading from the ground was 100% out of the question and almost always ended with him on his back legs and not on all fours I started doing it confidently and with time he progressed, now he still rears if he is in pain from the physical side effects of his abuse (boney protrusions that may be being operated on but he is on bute now so that helps) and he thinked that by lunging it will hurt, but apart from that when being turned out or led down to the gate or mounting block he is an angel.
A year on and I would not change him for the world. I walk, trot canter and even jump small jumps on him and for someone who started with him as a novice and he is not a novice horse I am doing a pretty good job.
When I got him he would not enter a school, be led anywhere by anyone or be saddled up. Now due to my own perseverance and knowing I coul work it through myself, he will be led by anyone who is confident and not scared, he will be saddled up by anyone without any fuss and enters the school without one foot wrong.
My only issue left now really is that, he used to be and still could be according to the vet in time once his legs are better, a grade a show jumper, so if I do something wrong like bounce up and down too much in trot or have my leg too far back in canter he bucks me off.
One might say he is a good teacher, if you're on the floor you're doing it wrong LOL. But my issue is that I cannot sit a buck. Never. If I manage to sit one, I've lost the stirrups and get unseated on the 2nd.
He is a loving and sensitive horse and would never hurt anyone knowingly, but now that he knows he can get me off by bucking and gets a bit of a break if he does, I'll always forever be bucked off, time after time.
Now I want to go back to the ground as WELL as riding him to see how things go, but I don't know where to begin. I just want some ideas to get him engaged, to get him trusting and enjoying my company. Just me and him, in a halter and what else will I need and what can I do?
Thanks!
I basically would love some ideas on how to start getting him to play and have fun with me in the menage, because tomorrow being boxing day I am hoping it may be quiet at the yard and I might be able to get 15 mins or so of the school to myself so I can let him loose. I need ideas, as all I know how to do is use the lunge whip to make him go faster. I am totally clueless but very keen. I am a big fan of NH.
HISTORY:
The basic background of me and my horse is that after 3 riding lessons I took on a previously abused 17.33hh warmblood gelding who had lost all faith in humans. I got his trust, and although leading from the ground was 100% out of the question and almost always ended with him on his back legs and not on all fours I started doing it confidently and with time he progressed, now he still rears if he is in pain from the physical side effects of his abuse (boney protrusions that may be being operated on but he is on bute now so that helps) and he thinked that by lunging it will hurt, but apart from that when being turned out or led down to the gate or mounting block he is an angel.
A year on and I would not change him for the world. I walk, trot canter and even jump small jumps on him and for someone who started with him as a novice and he is not a novice horse I am doing a pretty good job.
When I got him he would not enter a school, be led anywhere by anyone or be saddled up. Now due to my own perseverance and knowing I coul work it through myself, he will be led by anyone who is confident and not scared, he will be saddled up by anyone without any fuss and enters the school without one foot wrong.
My only issue left now really is that, he used to be and still could be according to the vet in time once his legs are better, a grade a show jumper, so if I do something wrong like bounce up and down too much in trot or have my leg too far back in canter he bucks me off.
One might say he is a good teacher, if you're on the floor you're doing it wrong LOL. But my issue is that I cannot sit a buck. Never. If I manage to sit one, I've lost the stirrups and get unseated on the 2nd.
He is a loving and sensitive horse and would never hurt anyone knowingly, but now that he knows he can get me off by bucking and gets a bit of a break if he does, I'll always forever be bucked off, time after time.
Now I want to go back to the ground as WELL as riding him to see how things go, but I don't know where to begin. I just want some ideas to get him engaged, to get him trusting and enjoying my company. Just me and him, in a halter and what else will I need and what can I do?
Thanks!