On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 9:49 PM, susan cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- On Fri, 6/27/08, Karen Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> if I've misjudged, I could put her into >> a situation of needing remedial >> work > > That's the mistake I made with Andi - only in my case it was taking him out > WITH a horse that sent us to summer school! He was doing fine all by > himself. It was putting him with another horse (my mother's horse) that set > our program backwards! So again, it's an individual horse's thing. > > Susan in NV read my blog to see why I ride my horse in pink: > http://desertduty.blogspot.com/ >
I started stonewall, and honestly, he wasnt nutty at all his first year under saddle. But then when it became clear he was smooth gaited and loved to go fast fast, I started riding him with people who had fast horses, because Jaspar, if made to go fast, would break into a hard pace and he was too low energy to keep up and it was not right for me to expect him to canter all the time while the other horses did a saddle rack or runningwalk. SO I would take stonewall everywhere with fast fast horses. So when he almost killed me a couple of times and I sent him to a trainer she said "wow, its like he has been taught that when your rear end hits the saddle he is supposed to FLY." and thus began Yearrrrrsssssss of hard work to undo it. He still goes nuts on large group rides, which actually I have given up with him on that. He does real well on quiet rides with other quiet horses. But I feel like everything that is wrong with him, I caused. and i am obligated to fix it or to work around it, Because he sure wouldnt deserve for me to just throw him to wolves or anything for something he doesn't even "get" that he is doing something wrong. Janice Janice -- even good horses have bad days sometimes.
