Guest Blog post # 29: "When it's Not Working" by the famous Bad Eventer!

OCT
26

When it's not working........

 
 
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Baby Seabiscuit (one of my 5yo OTTB projects) has made me think about another youngster I had some trouble with awhile back. 
 
 
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 I'm sure NO ONE believes the Super Pony ever acted like that.

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While I am Bad at Eventing..........
 
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 um....Bad Eventer here
 
I've always been good with the babies.
 
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This cute little mare
 
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was the first horse I started completely on my own. She was 4......... I was 14.
 
 
My problems usually start when I cross over from "starting babies" to trying to event them.
 
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The baby basics..............I've got.
 
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 This is my 3 year old Connemara filly, a future star!

 
 
A few years back I was trying to move up on one of my home bred ponies.
 
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 And it was
 
not
 
going
 
well.
 

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Somewhere between seasons she had started rushing at the fences, and smashing them to the ground.

 

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I tried......... everything.
 
Circling, stopping before the fence, stopping after the fence, smaller jumps. bigger jumps, different bits, different saddles, different warm ups, different approaches............
 
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Nothing worked and the more I tried to fix it, the more things started to unravel......
 
This was filmed during my last jump school before we had planned to move up a level.
 
 
 
 
That resulted in a panicked call to the show secretary where I begged my way into a lower division.
 
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I decided after that fiasco that
 
IT   WASN'T   WORKING!!
 
Every tactic I'd tried was unsuccessful..... and I began pondering what else I could possibly do??
 
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Maybe............ I needed to just LET her run at the jumps.............
 
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 ..........until she was bored with it, and figured out there was no reason for that kind of behavior.

WHY NOT? Nothing else had worked. 
 
I put a halter on her so I couldn't do much about the rushing.
My goal after all was for HER to figure it out.
 
I went to the arena fully prepared to gallop at fences willy nilly until she decided it just wasn't worth all that extra effort.
 
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I updated my will............. and said my good byes......
 
I pointed her at the first jump and...............
 
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nothing.......
 
She cantered around like a hunter pony. 

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There's nothing quite like the moment when you figure out it was all you..............
 
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Bad Eventer strikes again.



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