perchie.girl
Loving the herd life
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First of all congrats...... having had horses now 47 years I know that joy of getting my first horse..... My first horse almost killed me.
I am not trying to be a wet blanket or bring down your excitement.... Please Please add in the cost of a Hard Hat. I dont care how you ride. How much you know or dont know. And Ride with it ON.
You need to know HOW to fall too. Because every rider worth his salt is going to get dumped eventually. This means you need riding lessons from a trainer that knows how to start a young person. And can evaluate you and your horse for both your needs. YOu need to learn all the stuff you dont know yet. kind of an odd statement isnt it. But you need to know why your Tommy fell down and layed there for thirty minutes. You need to know that popping (from the definition that I know) is a sign that you need lessons on how to control a horse, but more so you need to understand what was going on with your horse.
Me personally I wouldn't have ridden him at all. Checked out the saddle fit see if the girth was too tight or pinching. I would have worked him yes but taken him to the round pen or put him on a longe line. try to figure out what was going on. And I am not a trainer. I learned what I didnt know out of handling horses over time.
By the way My first horse threw me on a mountain crushed part of a vertibre. I was twelve and was riding with experts. I didnt find out till I was twenty two. I have been bucked off jumped out from under kicked bit trampled and fallen on. My first year I was thrown over a hundred times. Riding a mare that was too young and untrained for me who was a novice rider.
Good luck be safe and get training ranging from horse husbandry to the care and use of equipment,
deb
I am not trying to be a wet blanket or bring down your excitement.... Please Please add in the cost of a Hard Hat. I dont care how you ride. How much you know or dont know. And Ride with it ON.
You need to know HOW to fall too. Because every rider worth his salt is going to get dumped eventually. This means you need riding lessons from a trainer that knows how to start a young person. And can evaluate you and your horse for both your needs. YOu need to learn all the stuff you dont know yet. kind of an odd statement isnt it. But you need to know why your Tommy fell down and layed there for thirty minutes. You need to know that popping (from the definition that I know) is a sign that you need lessons on how to control a horse, but more so you need to understand what was going on with your horse.
Me personally I wouldn't have ridden him at all. Checked out the saddle fit see if the girth was too tight or pinching. I would have worked him yes but taken him to the round pen or put him on a longe line. try to figure out what was going on. And I am not a trainer. I learned what I didnt know out of handling horses over time.
By the way My first horse threw me on a mountain crushed part of a vertibre. I was twelve and was riding with experts. I didnt find out till I was twenty two. I have been bucked off jumped out from under kicked bit trampled and fallen on. My first year I was thrown over a hundred times. Riding a mare that was too young and untrained for me who was a novice rider.
Good luck be safe and get training ranging from horse husbandry to the care and use of equipment,
deb
