At blogging that is....
So spider has got me in a muddle. I'm just not sure.
He is super scared of whips. He has bucked quite intensely, he has reared more than once, and he has crooked legs, that I think is the cause of him looking "off" on one rein.
But then again - that could be because he is super stiff, super unbalance and just plain ole does not know how to use his body correctly AT ALL.
He is still struggling to trot a balanced 20m circle... canter is near on out of the question (but he does promt himself to canter at times). Its almost like spider has a switch.... one moment he is calm, relaxed,foward and thinking, does as I ask. The next its like he gets a wind up him and he won't listen, goes far to quick and just doesn't think - this is when he canters and he is clearly not balanced and just about tips himself over for trying to canter, mean while I'm just trying to get him to trot (which does and doesn't help!). SO I really don't know what to do with him...
I do think he has a old injury or something - his shoulders are TIGHT, and he obviously has the tendon injury/scar tissue, the scars from going through a fence (damage to coronet band). So I just don't know if I want to put more then 6 months into him if he is going to break down... he def isn't going to be a top eventer.. he could if I could use a whip and reinforce GO... but I have got NOTHING at the moment it is SO frustrating.
We got saddle check yesterday and thats fine, he has had his teeth done next is a chiro, and last will be some shoes on his toes.... winter is here... so I'll give him the winter I think, and then decide because I just keep thinking I can get a just as nice horse, thats only 3/4 off the track that doesn't have the issue with the whip..... gah its doing my head in.
At the moment he gets work 3 consecutive days in a row or 4, and then has the rest off each week, because I feel the lessons will sink in better for being reinforced several days in a row, rather than every other day. He hasn't been worked this week - the weather is so bad that we've lost one of our garden sheds, roofs have gone and it was hard to stand up outside.. Ive snapped the door arm thingie in my car door - whoops.
At least it looks like I'll be living back at the farm in about 2 months. I'm sick of living in town I hate it, and I hate the fact I've got to drive out to see the horse and goat/dogs.... coutning down the days!
