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Location: Flo-rida | I have a young mare that sometimes bucks when I try to practice the pattern at home. I do have all sand and most of the time it is pretty deep. so I am not sure if thats whats causing it or not. I can trot the pattern just fine, even slow lope it (sometimes). but if I ask for a little faster lope , she bucks. so far, she has not done it at a show which is what leads me to believe its the ground at home. but mentally, it also keeps me from pushing her at a show too.. she has been vet checked sound, and is current on teeth- so I dont think its a pain issue. does anyone else have a problem like this? |
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| Every horse I've ever seen that does this has an SI problem. A good chiropractor can fix it. Unfortunately though it's been my experience that not all chiropractors know how to adjust the SI. |
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Location: Flo-rida | Not familiar with that- looking it up now. are there any other symptoms of an SI problem? |
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| 1) are you warming her up as much as you do at shows? My gelding gets a little crow-hoppy if I haven't warmed him up enough, no matter where I ride. But if you're at home, you aren't anticipating an actual RUN, so you may not be warming her up as much as you do elsewhere.
2) yes, I do think footing can be an issue. Deeper footing means they have to kind of get UP out of the footing to move forward, and that UP motion is really setting them up for a perfect transition into a buck.
Just my thoughts. |
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Location: Flo-rida | yes, she is getting warmed up. I also walked and trotted several patterns first . |
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Location: 100 miles from Nowhere, AR | My gelding will buck if he stumbles or slips. A couple of times he nearly unseated me before I got him lined out. LOL I had another one that when he felt really good, he would buck through the pattern at home--buck between barrels, turn correctly, then buck to the next one. I would take him back through until he quit bucking. He never ever offered to do it in a competition run, although he would sometimes hop around warming up. You could tell he was having fun and he absolutely LOVED his job.
Your horse sounds like the ground is tweaking something. Deep sand is notoriously hard on them. Stifles, SI, any soft tissue injury. |
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Location: South Dakota | Barrelrnr - 2014-09-22 9:14 AM I have a young mare that sometimes bucks when I try to practice the pattern at home. I do have all sand and most of the time it is pretty deep. so I am not sure if thats whats causing it or not. I can trot the pattern just fine, even slow lope it (sometimes). but if I ask for a little faster lope , she bucks. so far, she has not done it at a show which is what leads me to believe its the ground at home. but mentally, it also keeps me from pushing her at a show too.. she has been vet checked sound, and is current on teeth- so I dont think its a pain issue. does anyone else have a problem like this?
I had one that would do this when I practiced at home. My arena was really sandy. I think it was a combination of that shifty sand and also that I would drop my outside hand going around the barrels and he thought he was really going to get to run coming out of the barrel. It can mess with your mind cause I was always nervous to run him at home but I could run him elsewhere. |
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| I would look to see if they are being resistant at other times. (swishing tail, pinning ears, etc.) or if they are willing to please. Something is most likely causing discomfort if she is a pleaser most of the time. |
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Location: North Dakota | Betweenhorses - 2014-09-22 11:20 AM
I would look to see if they are being resistant at other times. (swishing tail, pinning ears, etc.) or if they are willing to please. Something is most likely causing discomfort if she is a pleaser most of the time.
As long as she's not being Naughty-try a different saddle too. |
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 The Bird Lady
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Location: The end of the Earth, SE AR | Okay, I have to ask.
What is the SI? |
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Location: 100 miles from Nowhere, AR | rollingrfarm - 2014-09-22 12:35 PM Okay, I have to ask.
What is the SI?
Sacro-iliac joint. |
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Location: where ever my L/Q trl is parked | are you sure it's a buck and not a crow-hop? I had a mare that when I took her around the barrel no matter what speed -practice or not- she would crow- hop around them when I thought she was trying to buck. Took her to the vet and he said she was crow-hopping, she had dry hocks and ended up injecting them- that stopped the problem. I also am a big believer in chiro for horses, but a certified vet/chiro not someone that learned it by watching. I also won't use a chiro that uses mallets to adjust either.
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The Bird Lady
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Location: The end of the Earth, SE AR | Three 4 Luck - 2014-09-22 1:52 PM rollingrfarm - 2014-09-22 12:35 PM Okay, I have to ask.
What is the SI? Sacro-iliac joint.
So its really the SIJ ? |
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| My gelding did the same thing. He recently bucked like a bronco and put me in the emergency room. He was fine at the walk and trot, but then he started to lope on his own. When I barely raised the reins to get him back down to a trot, he went to bucking. He was fully vetted and was ok. He's young as well so I don't think he was thinking of me.....just RUNNING. If you don't have a round pen, longe her for 15 minutes or so with a lot of direction changes to get her mind on minding you and then get on. Even then, ask for a lot of yeilds, direction changes, etc. to get her thinking before asking for a lope. If she still bucks, there may be a larger problem. If not, it was probably her being fresh. Good luck! |
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