Re: RC: Horses who Pull Back

[David LeBlanc <dleblanc@mindspring.com>]

At 12:07 PM 11/19/99 EST, Dbeverly4@aol.com wrote:
>In my experience, horses who pull back 
>are usually in need of some consistent discipline and training all the way 
>around.  Another friend of mine has an ex-polo pony who pulls back AND then 
>throws himself to the ground when you tighten his cinch.  

Our mare developed this a while back, and what we discovered was that her
saddle had the rigging too far forward, and the cinch was rubbing her a
little.  The whole setup made her sore, so she was reacting to pain.

>Her "solution" is 
>that she never ties this horse up -- at all.  

Our solution was to get a saddle that properly fits the horse.  We then put
the saddle on her in a stall with her face in a bucket of feed, and she
dealt with it OK.  After a number of experiences where being cinched didn't
hurt, now she's fine - though we do have someone hold her when she's being
cinched the first time, instead of tying her.

>He also exhibits a bunch of 
>other nasty habits that I wouldn't tolerate.  

Our's doesn't have any other really bad habits - a few nuisances, but no
horse is perfect.  Anyway, the moral of the story is that if the horse is
doing this under very specific conditions, maybe there is something to that
situation that is bothing them, and correcting that will cure the problem.


David LeBlanc
dleblanc@mindspring.com


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