Well after my post on the other thread about our cob mare being silly and then calming down nicely, we had the back lady Tuesday this week, so with post-treatment rest she wasn’t ridden from Sunday to Friday and isn’t supposed to canter until next week. She is 5yrs 9mths old and her back had never been done as far as we know. It was out of line but in a normal way and she responded well to the treatment. I have the detailed report.
We had our club lesson Friday morning and the silly girl got too excited going into the school and did lots of bucky cantery stuff. I stayed on and had just started to circle her on left rein, but she broncoed and I went off the front offhand. Landed flat, so very sore hut not damaged. RI got the lunge and she spent 10 mins on lunge proper bucking about like a nutter, but after lunging I did get back on then and completed the lesson, with only a silly spook, which I didn’t fall off.
RI/YO thought it was a combination of January pent up energy; the post chiropractor rest and that she may have been feeling ‘yeehaa’ after having her back done. She said she would be fine after getting it out of her system.
After school the same day my daughter rode her in the school, she walked and trotted nicely and then I made myself ride Saturday morning, despite being very sore. She was okay, did keep sensible but she felt very twitchy, like she was only just keeping the lid on it. She also started messing about again trying to get behind the bit towards the end of schooling.
I’m now feeling really worried in case she does it again. Hoping it’s just a blip due to a combination of factors as RI thought. She is lovely on the ground, easy to do. We have had a handful of big spooks out on hacks, but she’s young and learning about the scary world. No problem with traffic, mainly sudden movements of other livestock. I did post on the other thread about her being silly in the school on the lead rein but we realised after that she thought we were going to turn her out as we didn’t know they used the school for turnout when the weather is really wet.
Sorry, everything seems to veer from great to awful at the mo, just wanted to vent really. As a novice rider it’s hard to know whether you are doing the right thing.
We had our club lesson Friday morning and the silly girl got too excited going into the school and did lots of bucky cantery stuff. I stayed on and had just started to circle her on left rein, but she broncoed and I went off the front offhand. Landed flat, so very sore hut not damaged. RI got the lunge and she spent 10 mins on lunge proper bucking about like a nutter, but after lunging I did get back on then and completed the lesson, with only a silly spook, which I didn’t fall off.
RI/YO thought it was a combination of January pent up energy; the post chiropractor rest and that she may have been feeling ‘yeehaa’ after having her back done. She said she would be fine after getting it out of her system.
After school the same day my daughter rode her in the school, she walked and trotted nicely and then I made myself ride Saturday morning, despite being very sore. She was okay, did keep sensible but she felt very twitchy, like she was only just keeping the lid on it. She also started messing about again trying to get behind the bit towards the end of schooling.
I’m now feeling really worried in case she does it again. Hoping it’s just a blip due to a combination of factors as RI thought. She is lovely on the ground, easy to do. We have had a handful of big spooks out on hacks, but she’s young and learning about the scary world. No problem with traffic, mainly sudden movements of other livestock. I did post on the other thread about her being silly in the school on the lead rein but we realised after that she thought we were going to turn her out as we didn’t know they used the school for turnout when the weather is really wet.
Sorry, everything seems to veer from great to awful at the mo, just wanted to vent really. As a novice rider it’s hard to know whether you are doing the right thing.