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Sep 23 08 12:51 PM
Zelika wrote: The big problem comes in when I ask him to canter. He just keeps trying to trot faster and he won't break into the canter until I MAKE him go. He won't canter unless I get after him, and he starts getting ignorant whenever I get after him. The first day I asked him to canter, I wasn't wearing spurs and had no whip. I tried using my seat and leg pressure to push him into that way, but it didn't work. No matter what I did he wouldn't canter so I basically had to kick the crap out of him until my legs got sore to get him to go. Once I've got him cantering, I really have to ride him and even then sometimes he'll go down to a trot despite me pushing him forward. When he's going good I go with him and try to make it as comfortable for him as I can. He just won't let me be nice to him because he's always trying to find a way out of it and I can't let him get away with it. He is NOT sore, that's the first thing I thought of when he first started all this and I know he is not sore. Initially I had problems getting him to canter on the lunge line too, but we worked through that and now he's fine. When I use my spurs he bucks. When I use me whip he bucks. Whenever I get after him at all he bucks. He's finally realized he can't buck me off (he bucks like a sissy btw), but he's started bolting sideways (only at the canter). He dropped my that way once, he got a spanking for it and I got back on. He's tried it a few times since but hasn't dropped me doing it. He get's a kick for it or whatever, but he's trying anything and everything to get out of doing work. The other thing that's driving me crazy is that he is more concerned with what's going on in the pasture than me. I could be beating him in the head with a baseball bat and his mind would still be out there. I've been considering getting him one of those little hats that cover his ears with the fringes that dangle over his eyes so he can only see and hear a little bit. I want to get him out of those dirty little habbits without him going sour. I've been making sure he gets a release or a reward of some sort when he does what I want him to but he doesn't seem to care. It just upsets me because I know he knows what I want, he's just being an ass. I think I'm going to try and make a video so you guys can actually see.
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Sep 23 08 4:45 PM
sellefrancais wrote: Is there a reason he is picking up the wrong lead?
Sep 23 08 5:03 PM
CassielFell wrote: Well.. If he's doing badly for you and well for your bf... Then there's something with your riding that's causing the problem.. Get a video up of you riding him?
Sep 23 08 5:16 PM
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Sep 23 08 5:44 PM
laurieaw wrote: i noticed your BF was riding him with a nice, loose rein. is there any chance that you are using too much rein? i tend to do that when i get nervous, and when i finally get my horse going, he thinks i am stopping him. i am having to learn that leap of faith that he won't take off if i ask for the canter on a looser rein. and the last couple times it really worked.
Sep 23 08 7:34 PM
CassielFell wrote: Some horses do really have more respect for themselves.. and they can get the attitude of "If you're not going to ask me nicely... well.. fuck you." He might just be one of those horses.
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Sep 23 08 10:33 PM
^^^With some horses without a lot of "try", you take what you can get some days. I've had a mare like that. If you tried to pick a fight and make her be perfect all the time, boy howdy, she'd bring it. I took her to a local reining trainer and he helped me figure out a way through the backdoor of her brain. Sometimes you just wait crap out. Zelika wrote: Well, my boyfriends theory is that I'm trying to do to much too fast, and the fact that we both (me and the horse) have the mentality of mules isn't helping us either. I'm used to working with green horses, even the older ones (that's part of my job), but he unlike anything I've ever worked with before I don't plan on putting my spurs on to ride him again, if my bf can get him to go like that without spurs and without hardly kicking him I really don't think there's a reason to wear them. If he's as much like me as my bf says he is, the spurs are just making him worse. I'll try to get the bf out there to actually watch me on him (and hopefully he can figure out my phone so he can record it). Although hopefully by then I'll have figured it out and you guys won't get to watch me make an ass of myself!
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