More Horse and Bitting Advice

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It sounds like that lady is doing something or has done something to either spook him or cause him pain in those two locations. There is something she is doing that you were and are not. I would say get an experienced trainer to watch her ride him becuse someone will get hurt that way. I didn't see it but maybe she has so much fear she conveys it to him and he wants her off, and since you don't he responds and trusts you. She might be poking him with her heel or snatching at his mouth when she gets scared, I don't know but if you were able to ride him fine, the problem is her, not him.

I feel there is something along those lines too...a trigger of some sort. I know that we canter differently...I use the normal outside leg back to ask for it, but I was watching her just use both legs more to ask, like speeding him up into a canter rather than asking for it, if you get what I mean. I also prefer to canter in a more forward position, almost in a half seat if I'm riding for pleasure, so the saddle distributes the weight, wheras she sits way back and almost bounces in the seat. I wonder if maybe she bumped his back, causing perhaps some pain and he got afraid and was trying to get out? Because not only did he balk at the gate to go back to his paddock, the other point at where he would stop and spin was at the round pen gate on the other side of the arena.

I don't know...I've already asked her to get the vet out for herself and check him out but she dosen't think that's the issue, she's already got it in her mind that he's crazy. I don't think he's "crazy", I think there's something there that everyone has missed. This is the third home we know of that he's been in, he keeps getting passed along due to this issue. I don't want her to get rid of him and have him keep getting passed around until he ends up at the slaughter house, that would be a waste, and he's really very pretty and was really good for me until she got on him.

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I actually found his sale ad and a picture...here's one of the pictures:



http://www.equinehits.com/horse-for-...da_115042.html

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I've been riding this horse with no problems. I am really falling in love with him. She has already put him up for sale...for $3000!!!!!!!! He jumps 3ft, which is why she's selling him for that much. She gets on him, and it's like a totally different horse. Today I came out with her to show him to some girl and I was telling the girl the negative qualities . I rode him perfect, he napped one time and I got after him and then he was fine...the boyfriend got on and he was fine, and then my neighbor got on...and the second her butt touched the saddle he was spinning and rearing and wouldn't go at all. So she got frustrated, jumped off, and beat that poor horse with the reins in the face/chest...and screaming at him not to back up!. I was screaming at her that that will NOT help, it only makes the poor horse unwilling to be in that arena. I got back on him and he was fine and I walked him out and then we started washing him off. I asked her for the horse. I told her I would pay the $100-200 that she spent on the first month of boarding. She said no, that if I wanted him I would have pay more than $1300. She got the horse for free! Geez, I don't know what to do. I really have fallen for that horse, I like him a lot...