Re: "cinchy" horses and true confessions

["Joan Ruprecht" <ruprecht@tidepool.com>]

LANEY ET AL....

 

I too have a cinchy horse, and only one out of the many horses, I have been ridding over MANY miles.

 

This is my 6,000 plus horse C-Bow's Gola, she was not cinchy for the first 2,500 miles but became so in the next 500, she was also a little bucky, I seemed to relate the later to downhills, one where she has been in previous years on the same ride, very strange.  However, back to cinchiness,  I am sure I did that in the same 500 miles that I also caused her to pull her check ligement(I gave her a year and a half off.).

 

Imaging this,  I was TOO competitive, wore the poor girl out,  I didn't deserve to be forgiven I cinched her too tight, even when I could see the sore and swollen area in the girth,  how could I have been so dumb, and I kept competing even though she was being lame during a quarter of her entries, mystery lameness UNTIL the check ligement went.  Why did I not know to leave her off for 6 months before I blew it instead of a year and a half after which included many rides stared and not completed before and many x-rays and vet sonic booms ($$$$) exams after.

 

Well the legs are all right, but she still offers to bite when we cinch her gurth.  I never make it tight and more.  Is this memory or have I done permanent pain to that area. 

 

She is 22 and still a great horse.

 

Joan Ruprecht

----- Original Message -----

From: Laney Humphrey

To: Ridecamp

Sent: Saturday, January 29, 2000 4:51 PM

Subject: RC: "cinchy" horses

Hi All -
    Reading the posts about tenderness in the girth area reminded me of my friend's horse that is described as "cinchy."  He has the devil of a time tightening the cinch although it seems to be the early part of the process she objects to the most.  Her saddle is a brand-new Sharon Saare, fitted & made just for her and she and her owner and working with an excellent, kind and patient trainer.  The horse also, both owner and trainer agree, feels like she wants to buck just when she starts to canter.  The trainer says cinchy horses often do that because the act of cantering pulls the cinch & saddle tighter than trotting does.
    I think I have read or heard any explanation for cinchiness, like maybe a nerve closer to the skin than usual.  Does that ring a bell?  Or does anyone have an explanation for it that isn't rider related?
    Thanks!
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