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Leasing!?!?

Well, I am going to be leasing a horse named CC starting on the first of April. At my barn we have a dome type arena, so the snow is forever falling down. When I am leasing, most of the time I will be riding alone (well my dad will be there, but there will probably be no other horses) and CC is a little skiddish and fast. I ride her in lessons no problem and she will tack up well when my trainer is there, but yesterday my friend and I cleaned stalls so we could get some riding time in. Well I was tacking her up (in crossties) and she started pawing (like picking up her hoof and scraping the ground and putting it up on things) she was pooping a lot, she wouldn't stop moving around and she would not take treats or let me touch her face. She was very distracted and agitated. I am worried that she will act up like this if I lease her. She likes to spook when the snowfalls and she is a naturally fast horse. Continued below: I am worried she will spook more, act up more and not behave as well if my trainer isnt there and she isnt ridden with other horses. Any way to deal with her or calm her down a bit when she gets like this? or should I lease a different horse? All I will be doing is w/t and working on dressage patterns and bending (I cant jump when my trainer isnt there) By the way she is a 22 year old QH. Thanks! The time she was distracted and was acting up was the only time I had ridden her when my trainer wasnt around. It was a sunday and she is usually only ridden on tuesday, wednesday and thursday. Could that be it? Maybe she was just having an off day?

Public Comments

If she is 22 you'll never change her... sounds like you need something a little more sensible that you are confident to just get on with... look for another horse to lease....
the trainer should be able to help you out in training the horse. My horse took forever...I got kicked off about once a week. Just takes a lot of patience and spending time with her so you can both get to know each other.
if you dont think that you can handle the horse then dont get him... i thought that i could handle my horse but it turned out that he was way to much for me to handle after he threw me off and knocked me out..... i would really suggest leasing another horse if you dont think you can handle him
I think she's in a rut pattern. If shes been in a route for a while then any change can and will upset her. it really sunds like who ever trained her left that gap in her schooling alng time ago and instade of anyone trying t fix it, ( a normall case with School or lease horses) they just work around her problems. If your up for a challenge for a few weeks, maybe months or longer then go ahead. But, if your not willing to or don't think you could re-school her And improve on your skills at the same time then don't, it will hurt your skills as a rider.
She does sound very nervous. You have to remain calm around her if you are going to stay with her because horses feed off your energy so if you are nervous she will be to they can just sense it. Pet her on the neck and don't try to touch her face it might freak her out more. If having another horse around helps make sure theres another horse around till she becomes mroe comfortable. If you can lunge (sorry I spelled it wrong) lunge her before putting her in the cross ties