This has been creeping up, but not something I nipped (or know how to?) and should have...
Going out on a hack is great, no problems, got a happy horse. My problem is he doesn't want to come back. When we turn around and head back it's a drunken battle to keep him heading home and it is the slowest crawl imaginable. He's getting sneakier about the swinging as I usually block it. He'll just casually (and quickly) swing the other direction.
He's still light and responsive, he turns back fine, he's not changing speed, it's just like one long wobbly argument. This can go on for miles if we've done the track more than twice. There was so much traffic on one stretch last night I backed him a block to our street to avoid the wobbly in front of the cars. It's 55 mph (88.5km/h) and he wobbles with them whizzing by which is a bit scary.
As far as home goes, he eats when we get back, gets a good rub and massage which he loves. I did let him go once last year to see what he'd do; he walked to the nearest patch of grass and had at it.
Any ideas?
Going out on a hack is great, no problems, got a happy horse. My problem is he doesn't want to come back. When we turn around and head back it's a drunken battle to keep him heading home and it is the slowest crawl imaginable. He's getting sneakier about the swinging as I usually block it. He'll just casually (and quickly) swing the other direction.
He's still light and responsive, he turns back fine, he's not changing speed, it's just like one long wobbly argument. This can go on for miles if we've done the track more than twice. There was so much traffic on one stretch last night I backed him a block to our street to avoid the wobbly in front of the cars. It's 55 mph (88.5km/h) and he wobbles with them whizzing by which is a bit scary.
As far as home goes, he eats when we get back, gets a good rub and massage which he loves. I did let him go once last year to see what he'd do; he walked to the nearest patch of grass and had at it.
Any ideas?
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