SCARED TO GO OUT

[Janice Morley]

Hi, Mavi:

You might try talking a friend (or maybe your trainer) into ponying your horse with a dead-calm horse on the roads where you'll be riding. Your horse will be a lot calmer with a "buddy" along, and you'll be safer by not riding your horse at first. After a few times, you can try riding your horse with the other one.

[Mavi]

If there is a problem, I shall go though it with my mare. As she was behabing very badly at home (see my post on nerves), I had her taken to re-train by a good trainer that does not hurt horses in any way and it is costing me a fortune, but she has been there a couple of months and now she has learned and also I have learn and she has some more respect for me (although not as much as I would like) but now, she has been trained in a nice encloused arena and she is very happy there, the problem comes when I try to take her out and she gets very nervous, (I know that i am nervous too because i do not trust her) but she gets nervous and until she has been out a while she does not come down. I asked the instructor to take her out so she can get used to been on the roads and they tell me that when they take her she is ok (i quite do not believe that but as they have so much experience and "She" knows it behaves better. I am taking her home next week end as her training has been done now, How can I get her to relax?

Please help as it seams that I will be the one to take her to the roads to get used to it. Any advice will be appreciated.

Mavi

[Mavi]

Janice,


I went out with another horse! mind you He was a young one but not nervous at all.

When I first bought the mare she was fine on the roads (although she was quite weak due to lack of care) but since she has been in this school as it is all enclosed she seams nervous. I shall try the instructor to ride her with me on another horse this weekend to see for myself is she is fine with him as he assures.

Mavi