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HELP! My horse wont walk strait

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#1 ·
my horse is a TBxConnermara so he is quite flighty and cheeky but just recently when i try and trot down one side of the sand school but only one way he swerves extremely quick to the middle and i cant stop him and i nearly fall and the flings his head up so high of each time i have tried he wears a runnings martingale but it doesnt seem to help much at all with his head, if i just lead rein him along that way he is fine, i have cheacked that side and there isnt anything strange or scary for him, but now it is getting worse and he is doing it at walk please please help x :?
 
#2 ·
Are you working with an instructor? If not, it sounds like you need one.

If he knows he can get away with being naughty, he's going to do it. If you don't have the skill set necessary to make him behave, using all the gear in the world won't make up for gaps in your training.
 
#3 ·
You NEED a trainer/instructor.

That said, in the meantime, I would pull his head into TIGHT circles. Make his nose touch your foot tight. And take the circle in the way of the wall. What I mean is, if you are going down the left rail, and he pulls out to the right, use your left rein and make him spin to the left. When he *stops,* walk him back to the wall. If it gets really bad, I'd get a crop and smack his shoulder right before you circle.

He's not spooking, and he's not hurt. He just knows he can get away with being bad, which is a heck of a lot easier than being good.
 
#4 ·
Yeah anyway I have done my own thing now just to say it is not mean or cruel on anyway everytime he tries to turn cos I no where he does it I halt him and cos he is a energetic horse he gets bored after a while anfdonce he behaves we start to trot and canter and stuff and if he does it I get him to stop and I would have a whip but he is a rescue sort of thing and he is petrified of whips but I am slowly slowly getting him used to them if a stand a few metres away and can hold up a whip :)
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#6 ·
If he is being fussy at the same spot in the arena, there's two different ways you can approach it:

1. You can work him only in the area where he's being fussy until he settles down
2. You can work him really hard in the rest of the arena and allow him to get a break only in the spot where he's fussy
 
#7 ·
I think it is important to establish the horse's threshold, here. My first wreck was on a mare who went bezerk when I one day employed my usual "calm down and reassess" methods. The stimulus this time was just NOT something she could cope with. I no longer ride such loose canons, but I'm still figuring out my current boy's limits. Fortunately, I've rarely encountered things that truly blow his lil' brain.
 
#10 ·
He does have a small back problem so he can't walk dead strait but this is OTT and just the other day I took him down to cheack his back and he had a swim as well and nothing wrong or with him saddle and he is getting much better now at it my last two rides he has only done it once each time
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#15 ·
Simple answer. If you don't know how to correct the problem, then you need to get help from someone who does. Someone who can be there when it's happening to tell you how to respond. Someone who can get on your horse to show you how to do it right. All the talking on forums in the world can't teach you to fix something like this if you don't already have a pretty darn good idea of what you're doing.
 
#18 ·
Just a little piece of advice, punctuation is your friend. Many people, myself included, really do want to help but have a difficult time forcing ourselves into a headache trying to read entire blocks of written text that have no punctuation, no paragraphs, nothing to separate one thought from the next.

I skipped many of your subsequent posts simply because I was having a very difficult time trying to decipher them.
 
#21 ·
Yeah I know that and I do try actualy do try hard and I know it isn't an excuse but this is meant to be where people can talk get advice and be frendly so I can't be bothered to be having and argument when I can be doing other useful things so if you could be kinda and leave me alone unles u have helpful advice like other people on here
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#22 ·
Okay, helpful advice...

Take the time and effort and "be bothered" to make an attempt to make yourself understood and you'll get a lot more help.

This thread has 358 views and only 7 people have responded. How many of those other 351 views do you think were people who might have had advice but didn't want to take the time to try to help someone who "couldn't be bothered" to try to write in an intelligible manner?

And with that, I'll leave you.
 
#23 ·
Yeah I try and on every post not every single person that sees it replies to it if u have seen And I am sorry if I am not "intelligible" enough for u but that's me and people that care would take time to try a understand it and reply like they have and I was saying I can't be bothered with having an argument not with trying which I do and thank you for leaving me alone :) and listening to people who have helpful advice bout the things I ask
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#24 ·
OK, time to play the horse's game only you get to change the rules without telling him. When he suddenly dives for the center of the ring, don't fight him but encourage him to keep going and if you have to really encourage him, even threaten with a crop then work him in small tight circles, until you feel the resistance going out of him. Keep him at the trot as you move toward the wall again. He'll do it again, so just ride the tight circles again. About the 3rd time he should be figuring it out that instead of getting out of work you make it harder for him. When he passes that point and offers no resistance, do allow him to walk. That is his reward. If you can ride him the next day and see how he is. He may test you. If he doesn't then make this schooling session a short one as a reward, Somewhere along the way he may test you as horses do that but one reminder is often enough to deter this unwanted behaviour.
 
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