~BINGO~ - 2015-11-02 10:09 AM

 Sorry that you're still having problems. Unpredictability is the worst. And when they know they can unload you, they will. 

I sold my gelding with full disclosure. I let the buyer know what had been going on with him, and that it wasn't worth it to me to feed him thru the winter. I also told her that I wouldn't be riding him to "show" him to her. Lost several thousands in the sale, but it was worth it. He became very stressful, and horses shouldn't be that.

bigbob - 2015-11-02 9:16 AM I hadn't seen this post before but glad I read it and saw what others are dealing with. Friday my 4 yr old gelding bucked me off for the 2nd time. This time it was 15-20 min into our ride. I asked him to work and he took off and broke in half like Ive never seen before, I knew it was going to end badly and let go. I ended up landing in the worst possible spot and broke my back. Was airlifted, just released yesterday and the sucker as gorgeous and talented as he is, is going to go down the road. I am a mom and have a full time carrer I can't afford to get hurt again nor to I wish this pain on anyone! It's not worth it.  

bigbob - 2015-11-02 11:16 AM

I hadn't seen this post before but glad I read it and saw what others are dealing with. Friday my 4 yr old gelding bucked me off for the 2nd time. This time it was 15-20 min into our ride. I asked him to work and he took off and broke in half like Ive never seen before, I knew it was going to end badly and let go. I ended up landing in the worst possible spot and broke my back. Was airlifted, just released yesterday and the sucker as gorgeous and talented as he is, is going to go down the road. I am a mom and have a full time carrer I can't afford to get hurt again nor to I wish this pain on anyone! It's not worth it.  

teamthompson - 2015-11-04 8:19 AM

here is my 4yo filly....

the first picture was when I brought her home on 8-29-15, she was turned out and beat up...

other pics are of her within this last month in my care w good groceries and exercise....

Griz - 2015-11-04 11:24 AM


Holy BEANS! What is your feeding program? WHAT a turn around!! (Although, I'd still send her down the road if she continued to pile drive me Ha)! She is beautiful!

MOTIVATED - 2015-11-04 12:45 PM

I have waited a while to post on this....but I think that I will. I have a little dun horse that is pretty cool...he bucked with his owner...who consigned him through a known/accomplished trainer in Oklahoma, he bucked with her...she sold him as a 2d horse that bucked for $3500 after the original owner paid $8500 for him. The lady that bought him had her neice run him at jr. rodeos....swears he never bucked with her...but for some reason he came up for sale again....and I traded a nice but slow DFP mare for him...I was never told that he was a bucker. I did my research after he made three smoking runs with me and then tried to buck me off at a barrel race in Andrews. I'll attach the link at the bottom of my post. I had just had a baby a month before...I was also in a Bob Marshall saddle that I bought to run in until I got all my core strength back...my first run back on another horse in a flat saddle was a 17.0 on a deep standard pattern....in which I held on for dear life...and realized that after that I needed a sports saddle or so I thought until I got my core strenght back. Needless to say...I had that saddle on when I ran him. He still has white spots where the saddle pinched him that day....3 years later...I assumed that was why he bucked. Sold the saddle that week. Won a custom Martin Crown C the next weekend and it fit pretty well...was a little big because I had it custom made to fit my "good" horse at the time. Every 7 8 or 9 runs my little Dun horse would buck with me in the middle of the pattern...I took him to the vet, the chiro, the massage therapist, I cut down his starch/sugar levels in his feed, I had him stand tied and saddled more, I rode him out and away from the barrels, I had him scoped.........YOU NAME IT, I DID IT. I gave him months off time off...I had him magnawaved twice a week....still...random bucking on the pattern. I was at a big barrel race in Clovis when I looked down and realized my pad...SMX Air Ride....really wasn't holding its own...it was time for a replacement and before my run on this horse I thougth I'd go buy another.....Fortunately for me...the only vendor selling any pads was the producer...and she was a vendor for CSI saddle pads. I didnt have the funds really to invest...but she held a check for me...and I bought a CSI pad before my run. HE RAN...he didnt turn...HE RAN because I got it too big and the excess was slapping his little butt all the way across the pen! SO....I went back and traded for a "show cut"...it fit perfectly. That horse DID NOT BUCK WITH ME FOR 6 MONTHS not even when he needed his stifles injected...not when he was out...NEVER AGAIN WITH THAT PAD DID HE USE SORENESS AS AN EXCUSE TO BUCK.....Fast forward to my husband at the time getting us in a bit of a financial pinch...and I sold that pad...right before BBR finals last year in which Holly was running consistent 1d times again. I ended up riding in a nice black felt pad....no dry spots, nothing. One week before finals Holly tried unloading me in the middle of the pattern...and then at home...and then a few days later again....and I SCRATCHED $550 entry fee later at the BBR finals. I didint ride him for a couple months...I was sick of him...he was for sale...as a trail horse...for $2500 because he had never ever bucked on a trail...NO ONE would look at him for $2500. He is an awesome trail horse...and bred pretty nice. Sun FrostxHollywood Dun it. He will climb it, he will chase it, he will swim through it, he will cross it, he will jump it and he will plow through it....WONDERFUL trail horse....no one would look at him. So as I was running my good horse in Levelland...after my divorce...I bought him a pad with his winnings...I started riding Holly agian with that pad and his attitude changed, and then I started cruising him through, and then I started running him and that horse has not bucked since. In fact I just gave him two months off....got on him for two days and then took him to three BIG DEEP HEAVY pens to run in. 5 saddles in three months...3 of them competition runs...I KNOW he was sore...he never offered to do anything but his best and he never bucked or even acted like he wanted to. I've never changed my saddle, my feed, my training program, anything again...and this horse wont buck. I am not saying the CSI pad was a miracle worker pad...The massage therapise says Hollys shoulder is always tight...from his wither down....I was told as a 4 year old (hes 14 now) that he got "jerked down" by a big head horse that anchored up on him when he was a colt and they were heeling on him. He must have an old injury deep down that bothers him from time to time...maybe a catch, maybe a stinger, maybe some scar tissue...SOMETHING that doesnt show up on thermal scan or xray or normal palpation....IDK...but that CSI pad saved me from having a worthless SOB that I was neverous of and no one wanted to having some people REALLY regretting not picking him up for $2500.

video of him bucking in pattern
https://www.facebook.com/courtneymae.taylor/videos/vb.100000960399944/586507521391256/?type=2&theater

MOTIVATED - 2015-11-04 2:12 PM

Ok...you see where your cinch D ring sits on your saddle pad....my pad had adjusted...or something...and that d ring of my cinch pinched right where it met that pad!!! He has identical white marks on both sides. You might keep an eye on that.............or is that your stirrup? i cant tell......you might be fine.

I am glad mine was such an easy fix. I hope yours ends up being that way too. 

teamthompson - 2015-11-04 2:41 PM


yes that's the d ring.... and yes I agree pad could be a couple inches longer but doesn't seem to bother her....

will keep an eye on it, thanks for pointing it out.....

I have tried a Saddleright Pad on my other mare she was ****ed, guess it was stiff but she came unglued...

sold it quickly.....