Anyone have ideas on napping? Or have a horse who is napping in this heat?
My old share napped but at only a couple of places on the hack. I knew how to wait it out and overcome it. Her owner was far stricter than me and would use the whip for napping.
The new share is napping very badly. The mare has been much sprayed with insect repellant at the yard but it seems ineffective.
And since she is kicking away the flies, her back legs are coming under her belly when she naps and it feels as if she is trying to unseat me (which she is not). Like at the old yard, the YM waved a whip at the horse and even hit her on the bum to send her off.
I wasnt proud of my riding, subsequently having a massive argument with a mare who got to the first junction and then wanted to turn home. Rashid says it take 13 minutes for a horse to work out a problem. And she did indeed trot on (away from home) within 13 minutes. But one feels an awful charlie using those 13 minutes to turn the horse (stop it heading home) and wondering if one can even ride at all.
The solution for me once we got going, and she was listening to me, was to make her trot, as the flies all go and she is back to her usual self. But the heat makes it hard to trot her? And maybe unkind?
It is very hot and by napping she forced another rider to bring her home after 15 minutes. So napping has proved a successful gambit for her.
Now I have found out this, I dont feel so uncertain. Because I did not let her go home! But the question is whether the heat and the flies are really making her life on hacks uncomfortable. And I too ought to concede and let her go home? I did feel at some moments that it was she who was calling the shots, not me. And that is new to me and I dont like it. So I was quite nasty to her in return and made her go on with the hack. Being mean. And got back not loving her as much as I used to.
My old share napped but at only a couple of places on the hack. I knew how to wait it out and overcome it. Her owner was far stricter than me and would use the whip for napping.
The new share is napping very badly. The mare has been much sprayed with insect repellant at the yard but it seems ineffective.
And since she is kicking away the flies, her back legs are coming under her belly when she naps and it feels as if she is trying to unseat me (which she is not). Like at the old yard, the YM waved a whip at the horse and even hit her on the bum to send her off.
I wasnt proud of my riding, subsequently having a massive argument with a mare who got to the first junction and then wanted to turn home. Rashid says it take 13 minutes for a horse to work out a problem. And she did indeed trot on (away from home) within 13 minutes. But one feels an awful charlie using those 13 minutes to turn the horse (stop it heading home) and wondering if one can even ride at all.
The solution for me once we got going, and she was listening to me, was to make her trot, as the flies all go and she is back to her usual self. But the heat makes it hard to trot her? And maybe unkind?
It is very hot and by napping she forced another rider to bring her home after 15 minutes. So napping has proved a successful gambit for her.
Now I have found out this, I dont feel so uncertain. Because I did not let her go home! But the question is whether the heat and the flies are really making her life on hacks uncomfortable. And I too ought to concede and let her go home? I did feel at some moments that it was she who was calling the shots, not me. And that is new to me and I dont like it. So I was quite nasty to her in return and made her go on with the hack. Being mean. And got back not loving her as much as I used to.