[runningfast]

What do u do in a lesson if the horse runs through the bit every once in a while. Horse didn't do it with anyone else. How would you stop once the horse is out of control and runs threw the bit?

[MyBelgianAzzy]

Do a one rein stop. Disengage his hind end.

[Lindsayanne]

Put the rider on another lesson horse until they developed the seat and hands to ride assertively enough to prevent the horse from getting their head above the bit and/or until they were able to pre-empt a bolt.

[MyBelgianAzzy]

Lindsay- I agree, but on the other hand, I think it's important for all riders to learn how to stop and dismount in emergent situations. That being said, if I was taking lessons from someone who either let this happen or didn't immediately address it (if it was a freak thing), I would be looking for a new trainer.

[Lindsayanne]

Originally Posted by MyBelgianAzzy

Lindsay- I agree, but on the other hand, I think it's important for all riders to learn how to stop and dismount in emergent situations. That being said, if I was taking lessons from someone who either let this happen or didn't immediately address it (if it was a freak thing), I would be looking for a new trainer.

Yeah. But you can teach the skills on a dead-head veteran school horse. Eventually "stuff" is going to happen as a rider moves up the chain of more challenging horses- but you're right- if a student is being paired with a horse they cannot control, and it happens with that horse repeatedly- they need to be mounted on a different horse.

[runningfast]

well what's wrong with me learning to ride the horse? Everyone else rides the horse well and the horse has good breaks unless she does it with me. I'm just asking what to do to prevent it and to stop. The horse does not do this often and only with me so it's kinda my fault not my trainers. This could happen with any horse. I need to know what to do so I can stop in a few strides instead of sitting it out.

[MyBelgianAzzy]

Your trainer's JOB is to teach you to ride the horse! Have you discussed this with your trainer? What did they say? Did you ask them to teach you what the best response would be if there's a next time?

[Chester]

Originally Posted by runningfast

well what's wrong with me learning to ride the horse?
Nothing wrong with learning. It is the safety issue. Nothing to stop you learning to ride a bucking bronco either.

Everyone else rides the horse well and the horse has good breaks unless she does it with me.

That tells me you haven't got the skills required yet?

I'm just asking what to do to prevent it and to stop.

Time in the saddle and good instruction.


The horse does not do this often and only with me so it's kinda my fault not my trainers.

Your trainer should have realised that you can't ride this horse properly.

This could happen with any horse. I need to know what to do so I can stop in a few strides instead of sitting it out.

Now before you get snarky, the fact is that this horse has your buttons and is in control if it wishes to be.

A horse that is a walk in the park for one rider is a total disaster for another. That is just life. Experience too.

What you need to do if you wish to continue riding this horse is to learn to listen to what it is thinking, read its language and stop it before it gets to do it.

No one here can give you that. Sorry. It isn't a thing you can learn by reading it once here. You need to develop your seat, hands, eyes and feel to know when it is planning this and to get it to do something else like circle back on its tracks, halt and reverse, or what ever else takes your fancy.

I agree that it would be safer for you and much better for your confidence to go to another more reliable horse that will allow you to spend your time improving the above things so that then you can control a more difficult horse.

[dotgotcalm]

Sigh. Where exactly is your trainer and what is he/she doing while this horse is busy running off with you? Why do you have a trainer if it's not to teach you to prevent things like this? What exactly are you paying them for?

If you don't yet have the skills to ride this horse your trainer shouldn't allow you on it. If the trainer is going to teach you how to handle this horse then he/she needs to be right there telling you what to do and when to do it. It's as simple as that. Sorry, but it sounds like your problem is really your trainer rather than the horse.

[MaggieSue]

If the trainer isn't coaching you on how to stop this horse, then what are you paying her/him for?? You shouldn't have to come here to ask us what to do-because there are too many variables...plus it needs to be addressed WHEN IT'S HAPPENING. She needs to 'talk you thru it', telling you exactly what to do-sit back, half halt, inside leg, etc. etc. Not that those things will work, they're just an example of what she SHOULD be saying. My instructor would say things like, raise your inside hand, shoulders back, look to the inside, raise your inside shoulder...these are things coaches/instructors do. They teach you how to ride.