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1My Ex Racehorse
...he is a six year old thorobred ex race horse gelding. He is fairly lazy and we have problems cantering. Whenever I give him the aid to canter it seems like forever before we get going. Also, I have trouble getting him on the bit...

2Help with Ex-Racehorse
I have recently bought a horse just off the track. I am having trouble getting him to go forward. Whenever I put any pressure on him he stops as though he is going to rear. ...

3Spooky Ex-Racehorse
...He's been with us for two weeks. He will not enter his stall and has remained outside. Taking him in/out of outdoor gates is proving just as difficult. The first time he spooked and ran through. Since, we have decided to take him through the gate with a lead...

4Seasonal attitude changes with my gelding
...It seems that as soon as the weather changes and it gets colder - his temperament changes as well. He gets really agitated in the barn and old pawing and moving around behaviors that I thought were extinguished come back and he becomes more resistant under saddle...

5Ex-racehorse challenges
...I got my horse in August. He had come out of racing with a tendon injury. They also think he had laminitis in the foot due to the trauma. By the time I got him he was being turned out and was still slightly lame. ..

6Off the track, but not completely
ex-racehorse bolting with daughter

7Opinionated ex-racehorse
...he pinned his ears back, acted like he was going to bite me, and kicked out with his back foot. I scolded him so he raised his head really high and bit at the top of his stall and kicked the wall instead. ...

8Subtle requests are the key.
...when I today asked him to go into canter he just went mad having a mad bucking fit and tried to go at flat out gallop on the circle. He cantered round for a few seconds and then started bucking frantically again. ....

9Dream Horse Not So Dreamy Now. fearful rider
...when I today asked him to go into canter he just went mad having a mad bucking fit and tried to go at flat out gallop on the circle. He cantered round for a few seconds and then started bucking frantically again. ....

10My horse scares me!
..ex-racehorse has a problem standing on cross-ties. He will get really nervous and tense than he will rear up and brake the cross-ties. I am scared to even go behind him! I love this horse with all my heart, he is my first horse. But, I do not want to live in fear of him. he makes me nervous. I am even afraid to ride him ...

11My ex-racehorse is confused with her lifestyle?
....I'm a very confidant rider and she has never intimidated me but little by little she is starting to. When I ride her in the indoor she is as calm as can be and very nice to ride, but the minute she is outside she can not keep her attention on anything. Walking up to the ring she rears and bucks and pushes into me. I now lead her on a lounge line for space.....

12ex racehorse's studly behavior
A year ago I rescued a 9 year off the track... At the first boarding facility he had a lot of stud like behavior which we figured was from supplements he was on at the track....

13Training question
..I've been looking on websites to determine what it means when a horse pins it's ears back. Is this nerves, aggression, anger, etc.?...

14How to slow down an ex racehorse?
...So now we are at the riding stage. I was not afraid of her when I got on her. My problem Franklin is that she thinks she is still at Woodbine for heavens sakes. She goes really nice at a walk (for two min.) and then thinks it is time to trot. Soooo, I get her back down to a walk. She has soooooo much energy. I dont think she and I will ever trail ride....

15Ex-racehorse 'whoa's
...now I am the proud owner of a horse that is moody, a non-people person, does not know the meaning of stop or slow, and she is 16.2 hands high. I am 4' 11" and weigh 102 pounds. To make a long story short, she intimidates me and I have never had that happen to me before...

16Questions about foot stomping & Thoroughbreds
...I was visiting with her, doing our usual thing...and suddenly she stamped her foot on the ground, hard. She did this several times, a couple of times with her back foot, and a couple of times with her front foot, all the while looking me right in the eye. It only happened one day, but I've been wondering about it every since. Also, what are they doing when they paw at the ground?...

17Learning to ‘Dance.’ The Military Vs. Partnered Dance Class.
...as soon as I get him an arena where there is even one jump set up he is a maniac. His trot is a little fast, but still light and under control. However, his canter is rather scary. I go through the same routine when I am riding him in an arena with no jumps: Hold, soften, release. However, when I try to hold him back he doesn't listen...

18Rehab for Ex-racehorses
... I have a registered 7yr thoroughbred that did race. He is very soft in the mouth but minimal leg knowledge. ...He does want to please and learn but he sometimes has a sideways head tossing when trotting and then sometimes has this jerk head down thing. Is he telling me something? Is there anywhere to go to find out how he was trained or why he was released from he track? Or even how he was trained?.....

19How do I know my horse loves me?
'How do I know my horse loves me?' I have had my horse for about 2 months now, and I already love him. I live for those after school meetings with him out at the barn. (He lives at a barn where I take lessons) I give him some carrots, and give him some love, and then saddle him up to ride. Be he seems not to really car about what I want....

20Trust issues and fear?
... He will eagerly come up to me and his ground manners are second to none. Then out of no-where he will start backing away from me and lookout he is gone!!! There does not seem to be any apparent reason. He is fine one minute then poof, away he goes. It is making me quite nervous now, ...

21Rude Gelding
..Last year a younger more inexperienced rider and I got together and bought an Appendix QH named jet. He was 5 at the time and had been out to pasture since he was broke at age 2 for the racetrack. He was in a pasture with a herd of broodmares for 3 years and they were fed grain on the ground and it was total chaos...

225 Year Old Friesian Issue (swiping the hind leg and more)
...I may have gotten too close to where the former "twins" were...and he totally caught me by surprise with a side kick to my knee. Needless to say, I am rainbow colored right now luckily with no real damage. However, my confidence is a bit shot. I mean I had a thermometer up his butt everyday with no problems why would he strike out at me like that?...

23Horrible habits from a bored horse
I am about to begin work with an ex racehorse that was then used in rodeos as a roper. ...I gather his roping experience wasn't a good one. They constantly tried to domineer him. He has been kept in a stall practically 24/7 and only riden sparingly. He seems to be well broke just high spirited but has horrible ground manners. The people that feed won't open his stall for anything since he charges and won't respond to anything...

24Colt in training lays down
We break and pretrain racehorses, we have a colt that we broke in and sent out for a spell. Now he had this problem when we were breaking him ...when we tried him again this morning he just wanted to flip over when he thought we were getting the edge on him.

25loving an ex-racehorse back into connection
For the last year and half I've fostered a retired race horse. We haven't ridden her but a handful of times in the round pen, and have been doing ground work ...She is relaxed and generally cooperative... but feels 'absent' to me much of the time. A person familiar with the language of horses recently spent some time with her and said that she thinks that the mare was isolated from horses from an early age...

26Lonely horses (equine mourning)
...Now that Jake is gone she is totally alone. Not only does she have to learn to live without him but she has to learn how to be alone. I adopted her from the racetrack so she has never had to live alone. She has never been a people social horse. She has always preferred Jake's company to mine...

27ex-racehorse for foster home
The foster is set to begin in about a month. Out of the partnership, I am the one with 8 years of riding experience, so it will be my job to handle the under saddle work. ...I have been reading your advice on peoples’ ex-racehorse difficulties, and was wondering if you would be willing to give me some pointers as to how to get started with her.

28Horrible habits from a bored horse
I am about to begin work with an ex racehorse that was then used in rodeos as a roper. From the history I've been able to gather his roping experience wasn't a good one. They constantly tried to domineer him. He has been kept in a stall practically 24/7 and only riden sparingly...

29Gaining the trust of an abused tb
...I have just purchased a 4 year racetrack rescue. He has a great mind and loves to please, but he is very fearful! He is backsore and the chiropractor is working with him, says he was really out of alignment. He is very uncomfortable with grooming and handling... Do horses usually get past issues like this once they have learned to trust a bit? Do you have ... some insight about how to help a socially handicapped horse learn to be a horse?

30Overly rounded back while riding
...he travels with his head low to the ground and back overly round. Is his back just weak? If so, what exercises can I do to strengthen the loin area of his back? ...Do you think he is just in an "I'm still injured" mind set, and is trying to manipulate me into thinking he needs more time off?...



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