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Date Posted: 18:02:43 10/03/04 Sun
Author: Tori
Subject: Re: Ring Sour Horse
In reply to: Samantha Bishop 's message, "Ring Sour Horse" on 20:53:28 09/20/04 Mon

I have a few suggestions, I had a friend with this problem and her 10 year old mare got over it.
1. Try taking him/sending him to a trainer. This can be costly, but sometime a good trainer can get a horse back into shape.
2. Work on Transitions, if he kicks out on a cantering que work on that. It's a little bit diffrent if he only does it during shows, but if possible setup a "show-like" enviroment. Lunging is always good too.
3. When your not in the ring work on horsemanship/eq patterns if you use a crop LIGHTLY tap him on the nose when he goes to bite. Or I had to litraly gently kick my horses nose to get her to stop that sort of thing when I was mounting.

If you haven't owend the horse all his life he could have been abused and have trust issues. If you have time go out everyday, and talk gently to him. Get on and walk him as your doing that talk to him softly. whatever you do not get mad at your horse and talk harshly. You said he liked to be groomed, groom him and talk to him while doing so, give him a treat after a good session. This could be a long endevour, but I can say that you'll be glad once your horse has more trust and gets over this.

-Sorry I can't be of more help

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