Hi all.
As my horse and I are getting fitter and I’m starting to ask for real work, we’re running into a problem we’ve never truley fixed and I want to fix before it reininstates itself as the norm.
He’s got a really weird mouth. He can be soft and on the contact, not on it at all, or leaning all his weight on it. There’s no in between. He’s super sensitive to any move I make with my hands, getting offended easily and popping out of the connection, but is also happy to freight train around with me hauling on his face trying to have an affect on him.
When he’s above the bit, my main “fix” is usually to push him back into it, blocking him from going fast with my core. This sometimes works but sometimes results in him totally on the forehand running around like a hooligan.
And when his is is the contact and nice, it’s almost impossible to maintain - as much as I’d like to not more my hands ever, he’s not dressaged enough that we can turn or make transitions entirely off of seat, so there has to be some involvement there.
Current bit is a thick, double jointed, sweet iron D ring. We’ve tried loose ring metal and rubber and rubber D, as well as a slow twist D. Dental is up to date and checked every few months.
Is this a bit thing? Me? Him being a prat? All of the above?
