I can't offer much help, except to say I'm in a very similar boat...with my mini, lol. He's a pardox of behavior, that's for sure. It sounds like you've done a lot of work with your boy -we'd love to see some pictures!
It's strange isn't it, horses, but I suppose they go through moods just like humans!
As for photos, Here you go! :-)
When we first got him he was under weight and not well conditioned, he reared when you led him anywhere, would not set foot into a school without 30 minutes of rearing and getting very distressed and his eyes showed lines of worry and sadness. He had lived as a grade a show jumper all his life, pushed too hard too young and for 7 solid months perhaps more that we do not know of he had not once had any form of turn out, even in a school. Stable, riding, lunging. That was his life. It was so sad. The day I rode him and test drove him, he was good as gold, and I know if he had acted as he did/does I would not have bought him being a novice, but I look back and do not regret one moment! He looked at me as I left their yard from over his door and I knew :-)
Enough blabbing sorry. This is him when we first ever turned him out. Ever. for motnhs and months of his being locked up!
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Oh thank God he does not buck like that with me on hahaha! I'd be a thousand feet into the fence if he did! He does like half or a bit less than that apparently (someone was watching) which probably sounds like nothing but I suck at sitting them haha!
There is a world of difference between how it feels when you're sat there and when you see it. My pony does the full Capriole out in the field, but I'm glad to say he just lunks up and down a bit when I'm on there and we have a disagreement.
Yeah it is true, it's probably something I could sit to if I was not so stiff and nervous and not concentrating. I am leaving it until Sunday as he had the vet prodding him, trotting him up and down and making him lunge today so he did not get to go out with his friends and kept calling to them, so tomorrow I'm letting him go out all day besides tomorrow is super groom evening and the weather is supposed to be really windy so Sunday I will get on him, I have to try at least once this weekend.
you know... i used to ride this insane three year old stud (no really, people had heart attacks watching us) and he pulled a full out capriole under saddle once. one second he's straight up, striking, next thing i know all four feet are off the ground and i'm being thrust forward on his neck. NOT fun. regrettably nobody was there to take a picture :( i'm so glad Ozzy hasn't figured any of that out.
He is lovely. I even feel bad pushing him away when he head butts me! Like today he shoved me and I moved my elbow too suddenly and bashed his nose and he looked so sad I literally hugged him haha.
He is a sweetheart it's just his past comes back when he rides sometimes. He's so loving when he lets you in though :-)
Tabascokat is correct. There are signs that happen before a buck. The head goes DOWN. Do not allow that head to go down, keep the horse going forward, and you will avoid a buck.
A horse cannot buck with his head up.
You don't need to learn to sit a buck -- this isn't bronc riding. You need to learn to get him to not buck because he's too busy thinking forward instead of down. (Don't send him forward with the head down...you need his head UP.)
Get some help. If the trainer you're working with can't help, find someone who can.
You need to stop curling up and going blank if you're going to keep this horse. You need to be fully aware before the cycle starts and learn to clip it before it goes anywhere. All the Rescue Remedy in the world probably won't help because you're scared and frankly you have good reason to be scared.
Please get some pro help and also...if you're not already wearing a helmet, please do wear one!
is that you jumping him? you don't look very novice!
as for sitting the bucks...really all you can do is develop a better seat and leg, and that only comes thru saddle time. i've been riding my entire life and i just got bucked off a few months ago by a fresh 3yo stallion. if you feel him go to buck, rip UP with your hands to pick up his head while simultaneously sitting down and back and kicking him forward or even carrying a stick (but don't use it on his rear bc that could make him buck more).
He's a pardox of behavior, that's for sure.
It sounds like you've done a lot of work with your boy -we'd love to see some pictures!
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As for photos, Here you go!
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When we first got him he was under weight and not well conditioned, he reared when you led him anywhere, would not set foot into a school without 30 minutes of rearing and getting very distressed and his eyes showed lines of worry and sadness. He had lived as a grade a show jumper all his life, pushed too hard too young and for 7 solid months perhaps more that we do not know of he had not once had any form of turn out, even in a school. Stable, riding, lunging. That was his life. It was so sad. The day I rode him and test drove him, he was good as gold, and I know if he had acted as he did/does I would not have bought him being a novice, but I look back and do not regret one moment!
He looked at me as I left their yard from over his door and I knew :-)
Enough blabbing sorry.
This is him when we first ever turned him out. Ever. for motnhs and months of his being locked up!
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I'd be a thousand feet into the fence if he did!
He does like half or a bit less than that apparently (someone was watching) which probably sounds like nothing but I suck at sitting them haha!
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thought i'd share for no reason ;)
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I even feel bad pushing him away when he head butts me!
Like today he shoved me and I moved my elbow too suddenly and bashed his nose and he looked so sad I literally hugged him haha.
He is a sweetheart it's just his past comes back when he rides sometimes. He's so loving when he lets you in though :-)
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And I'm a 5 foot 4 novice rider haha, people said I'd never do it but we have achieved SO much together. Just goes to show!
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A horse cannot buck with his head up.
You don't need to learn to sit a buck -- this isn't bronc riding. You need to learn to get him to not buck because he's too busy thinking forward instead of down. (Don't send him forward with the head down...you need his head UP.)
Get some help. If the trainer you're working with can't help, find someone who can.
You need to stop curling up and going blank if you're going to keep this horse. You need to be fully aware before the cycle starts and learn to clip it before it goes anywhere. All the Rescue Remedy in the world probably won't help because you're scared and frankly you have good reason to be scared.
Please get some pro help and also...if you're not already wearing a helmet, please do wear one!
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as for sitting the bucks...really all you can do is develop a better seat and leg, and that only comes thru saddle time. i've been riding my entire life and i just got bucked off a few months ago by a fresh 3yo stallion. if you feel him go to buck, rip UP with your hands to pick up his head while simultaneously sitting down and back and kicking him forward or even carrying a stick (but don't use it on his rear bc that could make him buck more).
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