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CaddoCinnamon
12-31-2010, 05:46 AM
Sky is my 8 year old stallion. He hasn't been worked in a bit so today I am going to start him all over again. I want to eventually ride him and maybe just maybe show him.
Here is a video of what I had started but had stopped because of the situation with Cinnamon and Caddo and Dee at the time. So today I am going to start working him once again and hopefully I will be able to ride him one day.
YouTube - Sky
Gliderider
12-31-2010, 07:19 AM
Sky is a handsome fellow ! Looks like you and him are doing good together.
CaddoCinnamon
12-31-2010, 08:08 AM
Thanks. I have been afraid of male horses since I was 13 years old. Caddo really helped me to learn that I can trust them again. He was so willing and easy to do things with. By working with Caddo like I did he helped to build my confidence with the male horse.
Getting onto Sky now. I lunged him and worked on his backing today. He did pretty well. He gets excited rather quickly. I do have a whip with me just in case he gets out of hand. He did decently for just being started again in over two months.
Petra
12-31-2010, 01:09 PM
Good luck!
CaddoCinnamon
12-31-2010, 07:17 PM
Guys I have a question how long should I wait to try to mount him again? He hasn't had a rider on his back in almost 3 years now. He did have the saddle put on a couple of months ago and did alright after a few bucks. I am lunging him right now and regaining our groundwork. I am thinking of working him in a saddle over the next couple of weeks and then maybe start putting some weight in the saddle.
I would like to be riding him again maybe in the next 30 days or so.
zoel_222
12-31-2010, 07:26 PM
When he's responding to you well on the ground, you have control and he moves off of pressure, then I'd say he's ready to be ridden. Let him tell you when he's ready.
pocomoonskyeyes
12-31-2010, 08:21 PM
Hon, I think I should be the first one to get back on him. After all I am just about the only person who has ever ridden him, except for the few that have ridden him for 5-10 minutes here or there. He knows that I am allowed to ride him, if no one else has very much. Just take it slow and see where he is, before anyone "backs" him. Ground work first, build from there, wait for the proper time... it WILL come. Maybe not as soon or as long as we think. He'll let us know when. Not until he's "there". Could be 2 weeks from now, or 2 months...only time will tell.
Remali
12-31-2010, 09:57 PM
I agree, no way to know when you can start to do work under saddle. That will depend on how he progresses with groundwork. But, to give you an idea, I spent about a year doing ground work, and ground driving, with my mare. By the time I got in the saddle she knew all the commands down pat. But I did a lot of ground driving with her too.
Unless you're a good enough rider to get through potential bucking, I wouldn't get on him at all.
CaddoCinnamon
01-01-2011, 06:53 AM
Unless you're a good enough rider to get through potential bucking, I wouldn't get on him at all.
Tiz I can ride the bucks out if I have to. He has mostly done crow hopping. Cutter has bucked with me in the saddle a time or two and I can ride her.
I am wanting to do more with him than just letting him be a pasture puff. I have one of those and if I knew she could ride I would be training her. But I know she can't due to her hip being the way it is. Sky can and was rode consistently and did well under saddle so he will be rode.
TheBadLands
01-01-2011, 08:34 AM
Yeah.. it's hard to say. You need to work on your slight fear you already have. And REALLY establish yourself as the boss. Especially with a stud... Have you ever ridden through a rearing, sitting down, stomping, why can't I rape that mare, I don't want to go that way, fit?
It's not one of those you can easy bail... and studs have a tendency to rear.. and even flip over, before they buck much. Crow hops here and there.. but, like in the pasture, they are front fighters.
CaddoCinnamon
01-01-2011, 08:37 AM
Yeah.. it's hard to say. You need to work on your slight fear you already have. And REALLY establish yourself as the boss. Especially with a stud... Have you ever ridden through a rearing, sitting down, stomping, why can't I rape that mare, I don't want to go that way, fit?
It's not one of those you can easy bail... and studs have a tendency to rear.. and even flip over, before they buck much. Crow hops here and there.. but, like in the pasture, they are front fighters.
No but Lindsey he never did that even when riding with mares in heat. Not saying that he wouldn't but he hasn't ever done it before.
Something that he did do for me yesterday. He walked over the tarp with no hesitation what so ever on his part. He stopped at it and looked at me like do I have to and I said yes you do and dropped his head and walked over it several times without a fuss. He is doing me proud. He is letting me get my confidence back with him. He is smart just has to know what he can and can not get by with. I like his mind and his attitude.
pocomoonskyeyes
01-01-2011, 08:44 AM
LOL It's not like he hasn't been rode before. I used to trail ride him quite a bit when we had plenty of access to trails.(Then we just left the barn and could ride for days if we had wanted) However we have moved since then, with less access for trail riding, so I haven't ridden him for @ 2 years, maybe a little longer. He just has to be taken back through it all as a refresher, BEFORE we start riding him again. Better safe than sorry, right? So, to help with her getting over her fear of Male horses, Caddo has been doing his re-training. (Before, I did all of his training) He and I also have a bond, which is why I want to be first BACK in the saddle with him. He's never really bucked either. Just a sort of hop with both back legs leaving the ground for a few inches, that when he was "Green". So it is really refresher training, not training from scratch....a "Refresher course".
TheBadLands
01-01-2011, 08:56 AM
I think he'll do well. I just want you (MEL) to be careful of your back. And Dottie to be smart about it. Which she is.
Wouldn't hurt to do all your ground work with him tacked up. Even lunge him in a snaffle bit and side reins 15 on each side, each day. Then a little ground driving. Then see if Dottie can't get on him with you holding him.
pocomoonskyeyes
01-01-2011, 09:02 AM
I think he'll do well. I just want you (MEL) to be careful of your back. And Dottie to be smart about it. Which she is.
Wouldn't hurt to do all your ground work with him tacked up. Even lunge him in a snaffle bit and side reins 15 on each side, each day. Then a little ground driving. Then see if Dottie can't get on him with you holding him.
Kind of what we were planning on doing. I will walk him when she does get on him, it is the same thing that was done when he was initially "Broke" to ride, Just that it was me on his back then. LOL He Longes well on a Longe line or off, that is one thing we have always kept up with.
This is a video of me doing some work with him a while back.......
http://www.youtube.com/user/pocomoonskyeyes?feature=mhum#p/a/u/2/FMzUO46HTEE
Remali
01-01-2011, 10:23 AM
Tiz I can ride the bucks out if I have to. He has mostly done crow hopping. Cutter has bucked with me in the saddle a time or two and I can ride her.
I am wanting to do more with him than just letting him be a pasture puff. I have one of those and if I knew she could ride I would be training her. But I know she can't due to her hip being the way it is. Sky can and was rode consistently and did well under saddle so he will be rode.
Dottie.... if he is bucking then he is not ready for work under saddle. He needs more ground work, and lots of it.
"Sky is my 8 year old stallion. He hasn't been worked in a bit so today I am going to start him all over again. I want to eventually ride him and maybe just maybe show him.
Here is a video of what I had started but had stopped because of the situation with Cinnamon and Caddo and Dee at the time. So today I am going to start working him once again and hopefully I will be able to ride him one day."
I got the impression from your first post that he wasn't broke to ride. My mistake.
CaddoCinnamon
01-01-2011, 03:58 PM
"Sky is my 8 year old stallion. He hasn't been worked in a bit so today I am going to start him all over again. I want to eventually ride him and maybe just maybe show him.
Here is a video of what I had started but had stopped because of the situation with Cinnamon and Caddo and Dee at the time. So today I am going to start working him once again and hopefully I will be able to ride him one day."
I got the impression from your first post that he wasn't broke to ride. My mistake.
No sorry Tiz sometimes I don't explain well enough sorry about that. My bad.
CaddoCinnamon
01-01-2011, 04:01 PM
Dottie.... if he is bucking then he is not ready for work under saddle. He needs more ground work, and lots of it.
Remali he hasn't bucked yet. I have been working him lunging and have had my surcingle on him but he didn't buck with it on. It was cinched all of the way up tight and no buck. So I am hoping that he will be fine with the saddle on.
Remali
01-01-2011, 04:32 PM
Oh, I thought you had said he had been doing some crow hopping.... to me they are sort of the same, in that I would want more ground work done before moving on to the next step.
pocomoonskyeyes
01-01-2011, 04:39 PM
"Sky is my 8 year old stallion. He hasn't been worked in a bit so today I am going to start him all over again. I want to eventually ride him and maybe just maybe show him.
Here is a video of what I had started but had stopped because of the situation with Cinnamon and Caddo and Dee at the time. So today I am going to start working him once again and hopefully I will be able to ride him one day."
I got the impression from your first post that he wasn't broke to ride. My mistake.
LOL I can see where you got that about her... "hopefully I will be able to ride him one day.":)
You have to keep in mind that she has been afraid of MALE horses. So she has ONLY ridden mares....hopefully that is about to change.:popcorn:
No, I used to ride him all the time...even around mares in heat. He always kept his mind on the task at hand then.... not sure if that will hold true now. Yet another thing we will have to see about in the future...AFTER he has been retrained. Even when we work him in the round pen(that is actually square), he keeps his mind on the task at hand, only becoming distracted IF the mares are trying really hard to entice him. As soon as I step between him and them, he gets a little upset then but goes back to what we are doing. I have always maintained the "Dominant" position in our relationship. Dottie is now establishing that position/role as well, as she has just started overcoming her fear of Male horses(Stud or Gelding) this last year. Hopefully this helps explain what she meant better....
He hasn't been worked in a bit...
You meant a while, didn't you? I thought snaffle, not a period of time.:)
pocomoonskyeyes
01-01-2011, 04:49 PM
He hasn't been worked in a bit...
You meant a while, didn't you? I thought snaffle, not a period of time.:)
LOL Yes the "Bit" That was meant was "time" not in reference to tack. As in "wait here a bit, and then we'll go." It's that dadburn southern slang.....:rolleyes::huh:
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