Hi All
I'd appreciate some opinions on this please.
I'm currently leasing a horse. I've had her for about three months now. I've been riding since I was five years old, at a riding school and I've always wanted a horse so this is the first time I'm actually leasing one.
Long story short, does this seem strange:
The owner of the horse does not have a saddle as it broke before I started the lease and she hasn't bought one since, this means I can only ride bare back.
The horse is very temperamental, they are training her, so lots of lunging and training her to follow voice commands, mostly all my leasing is based on me lunging her and training her. I've no experience with this so I'm doing what the owner tells me to do.
I can see her as often as I like which is great, however, I can only ride her for as long as my nerves can handle. She bolts, bucks and loves jumping so she will sporadically jump, even if there's nothing there. That's all well and good but having to ride her bareback and not knowing what may happen next is unnerving, I've already fallen once as she did a mad gallop and a buck!!
I feel like I'm paying and not getting much benefit at all. I like the owner very much and I love the horse so don't want to leave her but does this seem wierd? As a "Leasee" I would have thought getting a saddle etc was part of the lease fee.
I also feel like sometimes I get somewhere with the training and feel great and the next week she plays up again and it's back to square one.
I tried taking her on an outride as we have a beautiful beach to ride on but that was a disaster! She misbehaved the whole way. I was constantly struggling to get her to behave. On the way back I was leading her and she bolted home breaking the rains out of my hand!! I had this image of being able to go on outrides etc and jump in the arena but so far I can't really do any of that. If I had a saddle then at least I'd feel more in control and more confident.
Just to mention, the owner of the horse trains her everyday and she is used as a lead horse for disabled children.
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Skiver123 · 24/09/2016 22:38
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