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Location: OK | Looking for input. I have a young horse who hasn't really been worked hard enough on the barrels to be sore at all. It doesn't matter if I have him in a round pen, on a lunge line, or loping circles, he never holds a lead. He will go a few strides in the left, switch to right, cross fire a few, then start all over. Then he will sometimes suck his butt way up and take off hard, then kick out, sometimes to the side, sometimes back.
Also, when on the barrel pattern, trotting usually, he will sometimes get on the backside and try to pitch, only really in the place where I would ask him to close the turn.
Is he being a jerk, or something wrong? |
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Extreme Veteran
Posts: 374
Location: Drumright,OK | Sounds like stifles hanging up. I had one that would side kick to get the stifle unhung. |
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 Tough Patooty
Posts: 2615
 
Location: Sperry, OK | Just because the horse hasn't been worked that much doesn't mean there aren't defects in stifles or hocks making them premaurely sore. OCD leasions, flat condyles, or spurs that they may have been born with. Go get some x-rays done to see what may be in there. |
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Elite Veteran
Posts: 898
Location: Mountains of VA | Sounds like loose/weak/catching stifles. Add lots of walking uphill and downhill, at least 20 mins. Personally, I would add the walking first before spending any money on vet work. Also, work on collection and getting him to use and work off his hindquarters more. |
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Elite Veteran
Posts: 1092
Location: OK | Stifles were what I was thinking too... he really doesn't ever offer to use his rear end unless you make him. He did this even after 60 days with a trainer, so I didn't think it was attitude either....
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