tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4380534023229200743.post8638870835546153544..comments2024-01-03T03:28:48.980-07:00Comments on mugwump Chronicles: Mouthy MondayMugwumphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01487540636265322556noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4380534023229200743.post-18381621243210379992011-06-22T14:34:18.408-06:002011-06-22T14:34:18.408-06:00I think that finding a trainer to help you is the ...I think that finding a trainer to help you is the best thing at this point.RussianRoulettehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03439625191979195030noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4380534023229200743.post-57916133691637197572011-06-21T10:27:14.979-06:002011-06-21T10:27:14.979-06:00Also thought I'd add, almost everyone I've...Also thought I'd add, almost everyone I've run into have told me to just keep her moving forward. I know,how can a horse rear if they're constantly moving? Well this mare can, and I've got video proof. We can be going along at a good working trot but if something spooks her, within half a stride she can go up into a rear. Most athletic horse I've met haha.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4380534023229200743.post-60887075059364065862011-06-19T11:56:55.044-06:002011-06-19T11:56:55.044-06:00Excellent story! I submitted my own today, would l...Excellent story! I submitted my own today, would love to see it shared with others.<br /><br />I have a training question. I have a very high-strung Thoroughbred mare who is very reactive to her environment. If something spooks her she will either rear (not little baby rears, think black stallion) or bolt for three strides, sit down on her haunches and launch herself like a Lipizanner. I try to remind myself to let go of her mouth as much as possible, and usually we can go around on a soft rein but on her 'up' days this is obviously a challenge. She rears big on the lunge line as well when she spooks, so I know it's not solely a reaction to contact on her mouth. She has flipped over in the past, once when she reared on a hill and once when I was handwalking her after coming off of stall rest. I'd like her to learn that there are other, far more appropriate means of letting me know she's scared, without immediately reverting to rearing straight up. Do you have any suggestions on how to go about doing this, or things I can train her to do and then ask her for when I can feel she's about to spook, to get her mind off of the 'scary'?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4380534023229200743.post-55842525015601825572011-06-16T10:17:04.226-06:002011-06-16T10:17:04.226-06:00PowerfulPowerfulHalf Dozen Farmhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00253311679688366394noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4380534023229200743.post-76465084144323653382011-06-15T04:59:57.585-06:002011-06-15T04:59:57.585-06:00BeautifulBeautifulAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4380534023229200743.post-84827865546465282562011-06-14T09:21:57.264-06:002011-06-14T09:21:57.264-06:00I love first horse stories...always sends me back ...I love first horse stories...always sends me back to my teenage first horse, and my current midlife first horses.<br /><br />JackieHorsesAndTurboshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03607758320356759231noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4380534023229200743.post-33989537455648021852011-06-14T08:56:06.003-06:002011-06-14T08:56:06.003-06:00Great story. The theme may be a common one around ...Great story. The theme may be a common one around here, but I love reading how each story develops and unfolds. Thanks for sharing yours here.<br /><br />Although it is not any of my business I feel compelled to urge you to go and visit that school sooner rather than later. The sooner you go the more likely it is that someone there will remember him. And if he is still there it would be a shame to miss him, plus he may be looking for a retirement home.Whywudyabreedithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12069453160852561143noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4380534023229200743.post-83038574469887307802011-06-14T04:06:15.070-06:002011-06-14T04:06:15.070-06:00What a great story; I often wonder if the horses a...What a great story; I often wonder if the horses at my old lesson barn finished out their lives there or not. I like to think they did. Thanks for sharing that with us :o)<br />I enjoyed the previous post as well; I am an Arab owner and absolutely love the breed for their intelligence and fierce loyalty (we have nine horses and five are Arabians). I had to laugh at the "Polish" comment though, as our purebred Polish mare (Bask granddaughter) is the least sensible one in the herd: to the degree that she has earned nicknames like Nervous Nellie and Spaz Queen *laugh*.Jenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17608579972739041880noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4380534023229200743.post-64850598349777580832011-06-13T14:27:23.105-06:002011-06-13T14:27:23.105-06:00My lovely Oscar was given to me when I was 11 and ...My lovely Oscar was given to me when I was 11 and he was 11. I hated school, and would sit in class dreaming of his canter. I'd look out of the window and ride a dressage test on the football field, and jump the boundary hedges. He was my shoulder to cry on, my way to feel good about myself when everything around me was telling me I was unloveable.<br />He died when I was 22, and still with the people I sold him to when I was 18. Noone could understand why I was so devastated, afer all, I hadn't seen him for four years. But he was everything that was good about my childhood, and he cancelled out everything that was bad, so when I think about being 12, 13 14, I don't think about being ostracised and bullied. I think about getting up before school to ride on the beach, dissapearing for hours and letting him find his way home, winning the 3'6'' jumpers for the first time, and learning to ride a half pass on my pony of a lifetime.<br />Totally identify xAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4380534023229200743.post-81006255804683658832011-06-13T11:35:17.211-06:002011-06-13T11:35:17.211-06:00Rebekah, I hope you get back to the school and fin...Rebekah, I hope you get back to the school and find that your old pal is still doing the work he was born to do, helping save kids. Horses like Midnite are worth their weight in gold.DarcChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18230643206461906913noreply@blogger.com