I am a sharer of a mare that I do love, but I am considering ending it.........and it is really about my riding goals I guess........but I want to know if I am being silly, my in-experience is showing, so I would love some thought from the lovely tack room mumsnetters.
I have been sharing her for 7 months - I knew her from the riding school where she was on working livery.
Anyway - I am wanting to improve my riding and eventually do low level dressage. She is a well schooled horse, but is over-weight (this is a whole other thread, but her owner is not motivated to change this) , and seems to have a low level back injury. I have been lunging her to build up her top line.
My riding and confidence has improved hugely over the last 7months, but with the time off over the last little while I have had some lessons on some of the other school horses - and although not perfect, each lesson I have walked away with a sense of achievement, that I have learnt something.
Whereas now I am back riding her, I feel I am going over the same ground.
Having to use a huge amount of leg to just keep her in a decent trot ( instructor who is actually one of her fans, and thought sharing her was a good idea made the comment, she didn't know how she would teach me to leg yeild on her as I was having to use so much leg just to get a good trot). This maybe related to her weight - which I have no influence over.
The other thing is she is a moody mare, and if I do something wrong (like use the stick at the wrong time) - she will buck, nothing to un seat me - they are small, but it has an effect on my confidence I think - but it is also starting to piss me off. But it also means I don't really trust her - and I hopes that I would have got to this point by now.
Then there is her back - she is uneven and I have been working hard to correct this. But I hacked her yesterday and I could feel the unevenness throwing me off..... Now I am being quite analytical, as I have had an open discussiion with my instructor about ending the share, and a point she made was, that we don't want dmare - causing me problems because she is crooked. Yesterday she was very crooked, which makes me worry that we are going backwards as far as her back is concerned.
The thing is, I am not ready to own a horse - I could think about loaning, but financially that would not be a good idea at the moment I don't think. So it would be back to riding school horses - which as I said I have ridden recently and every lesson I learnt something.
What do you all think?
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mrslaughan · 18/07/2013 16:50
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