Show Halter
My horse is rearing in halter,is it the chain your required to use on the show halter?
My 8 year old arab/quarterhorse gelding who had just been a trail horse but has a very nice disposition just recently started showing in halter and is having fits with the chain your required to use on the show halter.Last Sunday at the show he reared and put himself over on his back.He also reared when twitched for grooming,and tried it the next day with the trainer in just a halter and lead.The trainer is concerned he will start using rearing as an evasive technique and I'm concerned.He's otherwise a very nice horse and has never reared under saddle.He has good ground manners and is easy to work with.Could this just be a case of too much too soon?
The chain was under his chin and yes,he's very sensitive and the whole show experience is very new for him.I'm pretty sure I made a mistake in assuming he was ready.He's been very calm and settled since the show.I've been his only handler,with the exception of my daughter who was showing him.
Do you put the chain for halter under his chin or over his nose? Under the chin is much more sensitive. I wonder why you twiched him for grooming. If I had to twitch a horse just to groom him, I would not consider him easy to handle. Even if you were working on his head, you should have taken the time to teach him to stand. Now he he probably see's the twich coming and he knows your going to do somthing he doesn't like (or is more likely scared of)
Horses don't just decide "oh, I'm going to rear to get out of working" It probably started when he was in that first halter class, lots of stuff was going on and he had a chain on, totally outside the experiance of a trail horse. He was probably a little fidgety, but the person handleing him tugged on the lead, which either startled, hurt or both.
When a horse is in a scarey situation, he will try to leave, if he can't leave, he will do somthing else. He might try to fight. He may freeze. Or he may rear. Often horses that feel they can't go forward, can't go backward, but must go somwhere will rear. And he must have been very frightened to rear high enough to flipp over.
Has he reared when you hadle him? who handled him in the show? If the trainer handled him both times he reared, he is probably now scared of him/her. You know how it is with horses and bad experiances......
What type of preparation did you do in advance of his first shows? Of the show he reared at? And I don't mean grooming. a horse that has "just been a trail horse" should not be expected to have any experiance with shows, or the noise and the (sometimes) organized choas around him. If your trainer didn't do extensive work prior to taking him to a show and entering in in a halter class (bare minimum: work at home with the chain and the halter he will be wearing at the shows) then it might be tim to get a new trainer.
If you are leading him anywhere and he wants to rear, he will have to 1) be straight, 2) stop, 3) shift his weight back, then 4) rear. All that can happen very quickly, but if you are perseptive, them moment he stops, you can ask him to circle right away. "Walk in a circle with me" works much better than "don't rear" After a while, he will begin to forget he was thinking about rearing
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