The first idea was that I get her ready for the owner's little sister.... She is very easy to ride, especially in the arena, on the trails, sometimes she has her moods, but who doesnt... The problem is the groun care.... We don't know why, but she is very agressive to foreign people... She only had no problem with her owner, anyone else she would kick out of the stable or paddock.... When I first met her, I only touched her with the rubber cleaning thing and suddenly I was lying in the broken fence.... Took me a year before I was able to tack her, to groom her without her woner holding her.... There were many whiplashes, many curses many broken ribs (of mine) and many many many bruises on my stomach and legs... And we finally made it, she stands still shile tacking, while grooming, etc... But when someone foreign appears, she would go like crazy, doesnt allw them to touch her, or even groom.... When the vet has to come twice a year, three people hold her, she is fed by some chilling herbals for a week and even though she almost kills us all while being vaccinated.... Once the vet leaves, I can deworm her myslef without eve holding her on a lead rope....
If it was only problem of the "not-knowing the people"-the little girl will just come to her as much as possible and she would go along.... But the problem is that she eve becomes really agressive... she is very dominant character, and since she is in the herd with big horses, she is totally submissive in that herd... So she tries her luck on people.... And the problem is, that she knows who she can treat like that and who not. I call her, she comes, she doesnt allow herself to move while grooming, tacking, she takes the bit herself, and the moment I touch her leg she lifts it and holds until I say "down" (wchich makes me sometimes problem while bandaging
). But the moment someone other comes to her, she gets her ears backwards and goes against the man coming... We cannot imagine putting a child to her....
