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!
Then after the yard proclamied him to be "evil" we moved to a competition yard where the horses were all dealt with individually and since we went there and I worked on our bond alot, anyone can turn him out now, sometimes he tries it on but it's miles from the rearing maddo we had before haha. He is alot happier and it;s like having a different horse, I just wish the bucking would go now haha.
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 :-)
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!
Then after the yard proclamied him to be "evil" we moved to a competition yard where the horses were all dealt with individually and since we went there and I worked on our bond alot, anyone can turn him out now, sometimes he tries it on but it's miles from the rearing maddo we had before haha. He is alot happier and it;s like having a different horse, I just wish the bucking would go now haha.
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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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