Post by Smay on Mar 25, 2003 8:36:55 GMT -5
OK, after Niaru jogged my memory about that tub of "EZ Calm" I had in the tackroom...I gave Tedster a double scoop with his breakfast this morning. At lunchtime, I went home to lunge him again, and WALA.... the quarter horse trot! He spent half his time trying to graze, and the other half trotting around trying to graze while trotting... NO GALLOP. NO BUCK. NOT ONE FART or SQUEAL! So I threw him back out into the pasture with his fart buddies, and I will maybe lunge him again after work, and MAYBE get on and see if the effect lingers.... Really, the stupid stud is just over-energized by his feed I think. That L-Tryptophan stuff really works pretty good!
crap - way to ruin a beautiful spring day...in the 70s and finally dry enough to ride horses in the yard... I know I'm being unreasonable to expect Teddy to be "good" after months of no riding and good food, but GAWD! He was more than bad. He was totally impossible. It was like working with a totally unbroke yearling or something. My expectations were low - I just wanted to saddle him and walk around the yard about three times calmly. Just to remember that he sometimes get ridden. But NOOOO....he wouldn't let me get on. Reared and twirled all over until I just did a quick hop mount while he backed up at light speed. Then he would NOT take a straight step. He reared a LOT...hopped and bucked and just wouldn't even walk. So I put him on the lunge line and it was like he never lunged in his life. We did not get a SINGLE revolution without some kind of galloping, bucking, rearing fit in the middle of it. He trotted full speed and then would break into a bucking fit, then come straight at me, where i would swing my line in a big circle trying to get him to halt and he'd take off in the opposite direction bucking and galloping again. He TOTALLY tore up the yard with huge divots from his antics. I got a good sweat going on him, and about two revolutions at a trot and finally quit. It was hard finding a single "good note" to quit with! Man, I have a lot of work to do and I can barely figure where to start. I guess I'll just work on the lunge line daily until he begins to settle. He'd been outside ALL DAY playing, so you'd think he'd be a little more relaxed! How depressing to start spring like this! I'm scheming a way I can lunge him daily on my lunch hour ( lunge hour?), then turn him out and try riding him later after work. It's supposed to pour today, so there goes my riding yard.... Aaarrrgh!!!
crap - way to ruin a beautiful spring day...in the 70s and finally dry enough to ride horses in the yard... I know I'm being unreasonable to expect Teddy to be "good" after months of no riding and good food, but GAWD! He was more than bad. He was totally impossible. It was like working with a totally unbroke yearling or something. My expectations were low - I just wanted to saddle him and walk around the yard about three times calmly. Just to remember that he sometimes get ridden. But NOOOO....he wouldn't let me get on. Reared and twirled all over until I just did a quick hop mount while he backed up at light speed. Then he would NOT take a straight step. He reared a LOT...hopped and bucked and just wouldn't even walk. So I put him on the lunge line and it was like he never lunged in his life. We did not get a SINGLE revolution without some kind of galloping, bucking, rearing fit in the middle of it. He trotted full speed and then would break into a bucking fit, then come straight at me, where i would swing my line in a big circle trying to get him to halt and he'd take off in the opposite direction bucking and galloping again. He TOTALLY tore up the yard with huge divots from his antics. I got a good sweat going on him, and about two revolutions at a trot and finally quit. It was hard finding a single "good note" to quit with! Man, I have a lot of work to do and I can barely figure where to start. I guess I'll just work on the lunge line daily until he begins to settle. He'd been outside ALL DAY playing, so you'd think he'd be a little more relaxed! How depressing to start spring like this! I'm scheming a way I can lunge him daily on my lunch hour ( lunge hour?), then turn him out and try riding him later after work. It's supposed to pour today, so there goes my riding yard.... Aaarrrgh!!!
and this is also what we will be like ------> 
and here's another one from everyone else out at the barn that thinks I should give him up -------> 
so wish me luck! 'Course, I am definitely going to start with lunging MY big red goober!
