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#1 ·
I have a mare that i have had since april. we use to go on 5 hr trail rides. have intermedit riders on her. and than 3 months ago she started bucking. I have had her check and cant find nothing wrong. how can i get her to stop.
 
#3 ·
ya it depends what the horse is doing when she bucks. that happened to me and my horse. he found my weakness lol. everytime i kicked him to canter or lope he would kind of do a really small buck to warn me but i would keep trying to get him to canter and thats when he would start bucking i almost fell off a few times. so obviously i didnt want to keep going if he was gonna keep bucking so i would stop but finally my sister help me get him straight again you just have to keep pushing him into a faster canter or lope because if they are going fast enough then they cant buck. hope this helped!!!
 
#5 ·
I'm sorry, but I can't interpret anything from your post about your problem. I need specifics, but I do agree with the poster above me...if this has gone on for 3 months, you need a trainer.
 
#9 ·
If she only bucked once which got you off, that does not mean that she is now a bucker.
It's very likely that she was in some kind of discomfort if you just got on and she started bucking. Her back may have been out, or maybe she even had something as simple as a grass seed under her saddle blanket that was stabbing her in the back.

I would put her on the lunge, and then get an experienced rider to have a few rides on her before you get on. If she is not in discomfort she's probably not going to do anything wrong if she has always been very quiet like you say, but if you get on her feeling very tense and nervous and expecting her to buck, chances are she WILL!
 
#11 ·
Has she lost or gained weight since you got her? Even a change in muscle mass can change the fit of a saddle.
i agree, we need more information.
Are riders cranking on her face, using the reins for balance?
Are riders bouncing on her back?
Is she barn sour?
So many questions, so little answers.
 
#12 ·
If no one has been on this horse since the time she bucked you off, how do you know she is still bucking when she is ridden?

That said, yes, one incident can make a horse turn into a chronic bucker, especially if no one got back on and rode her out...thus she got rewarded for that behavior. What she needs is someone to take her back to square one, work with her from the ground up for a bit, and rework some of her skills, and then get back on...'reframe' her mind, so to speak...I have retrained chronic buckers without ever actually addressing the actual behavior, simply by addressing all the other holes in their training...chances are this horse has plenty if she all of a sudden just decided to one day buck you off.
 
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