My first Horse show..Disaster?
ok so a couple days ago I went o m first horse show.it wasnt like a huge event or to competitive or anything..I rode the horse I usually do...she get really nervous from the crowd she spooked about every 10 seconds and be all over the place when anyone made a sudden movement in the crowd she jumped and any started to run or backup. It was so embarrassing. Everyone else who was going to ride her that hours of daylight got a different horse. But for my second event they put me on her again!! She was a timorous wreck.and she always got spooked the most in impossible to tell apart corner
this horse only does 1 show a year
what do you think about this?
If you were nervous, she caught up on that(: Oh, and don't verbs, it basically happens at everyone first show. Not to worry, you'll swot up. Trust your horse, and trust yourself as my trainer always says. you have plenty more shows(:
Good luck and sorry 'bout the embarassment.
Its all right, just breathe and relax. It was your first horse show, not a big concordat at all. The horse was probably just as fearful as you were. Maybe a horse with little show expierence is not the best horse for a first show. Maybe have someone else show that horse, within the same ring, right before you show. Or maybe ask to college in the ring before you are about to ride. Keep your horse bent and your heels down. Stay unmoved. If you are a complete wreck, maybe it would be okay to dismount and leave the course. That is better than endangering other horses and people. Dont be afraid to show again becuase of this incident. It's fine. Horse showing is probably the funnest thing I can have an idea that of.
Good luck! :)
If you're expected to ride her she needs to be taken to a minimum of three shows a month. That is the bottom dash i took a flighty tb who had NEVER been to a show and acted a lot resembling that to my very first show too and it was an A rated show not a bit schooling show.
It is rewarding if you eventually get them under control but you hold to be persistent and maybe even for like three more weeks in recent times take to a show a week and ride her in the awrmup dont actually enter a course until she's been to shows a few times and has settled down (maybe by the 3rd or 4th show) this is a project you'd have to be feeling like to take on or you should be riding a different horse.
as embarrassing as it was for you, it was probably a moral experience for you. Now, that trainer shouldn't have put you on the horse, but try turning the bad into the good. Nobody can only just start out on top. You displayed that you can handle a horse who is spooking and nervous. I already think you're a better rider than those culture who just use a bomb-proof perfect horse. Anybody could ride those horses: its people who can button the nervous ones that become the trainers.
For a first show, it be really unacceptable to put you on her! But, you know, I think there are a few reason she would act that way: Not used to show environment or naturally spooky: If this is the problem ask whether you can take her to some shows and just have her amid the hustle and bustle for a while. Or, It could be her phantasm. Maybe she is partially blind, or has very small/ set vertebrae eyes, and can't see where she is going. This would have the same remedy, but whether she has an eye problem, maybe she shouldn't' show at all. No thing what the cause, don't scold her for spooking, soothe her. If you yell at her for spooking, you are describing her that the thing she was scared of really is death-defying, and you will just make her more scared.
Good Luck!
Well im guessing its not your horse. The owner of the horse probably kept you on that horse because they thought you could handle it. If the horse with the sole purpose does one show a year you cant really expect it to be relaxed and happy with the environment.It just wants to be introduced to crowds more often. You could ask if you could go more shows beside it.
We've all be there!! It is embarrassing, but people know roughly speaking these things, so don't be too embarrassed. If the horse can ride along to some shows in the future.not to play a part in classes, but just to be ridden around the grounds and in the warmup nouns, etc. to get used to it without the pressure of entering classes, it will help surrounded by the future.
As for you, I would ask for a seasoned show horse for my next experience, if i.e. possible. You don't want to get so you fear showing because of too many experiences approaching this. Try to learn from it and have a good screech..there's always next time.
my first horse show be pretty embarrassing that didn't know they were judging my horse and not me and i have a short arabian which put me off a lot and so was my moment one i don't show much so yeah but hopefully my next one will be better
I think your trainer should have put you on a different horse. If it was your first show, you would be panicky enough and you don't need a nervous horse to make a payment to the problem. At your next lesson, confront your trainer about this. Then ask to ride a more sane horse so when you go to a show, you can soak up it.
They should have given you a different horse. It doesn't matter though. Hopefully, they will transmutation the horse you ride by the next show. OR talk to them.
she may have been acting on your nerves/ anxiety. you should bear her out where there is more people, it will obtain her used to crowds and such. and try breathing reallly deep if you're feeling restless. your horse will calm down when you do.
Everything's just another learning experience.
Your trainer probably put you on that horse for a principle, the reason being she thought you could handle it. Maybe you could ride a different horse for a few shows and next go back to the horse you rode last show?
Personally I resembling the horses that are going to make me ride them 100% you don't LEARN anything from the horses that pack you around and win a blue ribbon. From almost every rider you will meet they will make clear to you the horses that made them better were the ones that put them in the dirt.
If you gave me a choice between two horses, one who be known to explode in the ring (not extremely though) and one who I knew I could win on, I would choose the horse that was explosive. Why? because even if I did devour a mouthful of dirt, I would actually be riding my best because I would be thinking,
"eq.don't loose the eq...loose the eq and your dead!"
EVERYTHING is a learning experience ... it may own been a disaster but you have intellectual something from it!
good luck
This horse needs more competitions whether she is going to learn how to operate in a unmarked environment without getting anxious. One show per year will not do it. For a horse to get used to the show environment, they have to budge to several shows - at least enough to get used to the hustle and bustle of a show. The exact number depends on the horse.
As for spooking surrounded by one corner, what you could have done is take her to that one corner during a break (if possible) and let her explore the corner until it wasn't terrifying anymore.
As for you, don't be embarrassed. Lots of horses get nervous at shows. Probably most everyone in that has been in your shoes at one point. It is also probably the travel case that your nerves from being at your first horse show were compounding your mare's nerves.
Answers: Your horse's behavior does not nouns that unusual for a horse that doesn't get out much. It's too bad you have to ride her for your first show. They must have thought you did a good job despite her behavior whether they kept you on her for your second class. You should take that as a compliment.
Hopefully you'll carry a chance to show on a steadier horse at some point, but if you want to stick with the rebel of this mare and see what you can do with her, you'll find your sense of accomplishment for a good show ride would mean bearing more than a ribbon.
Ok the horse is not adjectives that experienced for the show seen yet but that doesn't mean you enjoy a bad horse that just means that you own to work with her in new and different situations. as soon as you surface her tense up in a new situation you entail to be calm pet her and talk to her if you can afterwards you should gradually with encouragement try to lead her towards what is bothering her the gap time comforting her and petting her.You may be able to do this better by leading her instead of being on her backbone and doing it. It is safer to lead her any ways. It my take work and a lot of leniency but really once you introduce them to different situations and scenes gradually and show them that everything is ok then any horse beside time and a bit of training by you and patience can be in a show situation
Well like the other person said your trainer should of put you on a different horse. Did she give to get on and school the horse at all? whether not I would think of getting another trainer. That was a dangerous situation for you, the horse, and everyone else in/near the ring. The horse should be taken within to more shows with more experienced people.
Sorry your horse show didn't go as well as you thought it would, but inopportunely, almost nothing ever does!
Ive shown lots, and this past Sunday, the horse I lease and I be doing our second hunter round at a show my barn puts on- the class I was surrounded by was just with me and the other helper (other members of the pony club) and were all friends, so it be embarassing, but not too bad. Anyways, I was coming up to one of the jumps and anticipated too much- messed up near the take off (my horse neevr takes of long, other short) so anyways.. long story short I ended up on her neck and fell off- pretty much on my feet luckily, but anyways, Im really embarassed very soon, because our jumping wasn't even that great to begin with- the past two months own been flat work, so weve really improved there. Anyways; my point is; you can never expect things to walk a certain way, horses are unpredictable and often stroke differently at shows- more people, more stressful enviroment, if you were stressed the horse can also quality that.
Don't worry about it; it was your first show, and even I go and get nervous going in, but once your doing your round, you sort of forget about everyone else afterwards.
it all comes next to experience.
well done for persisting with her and not lettin her procure away with playing up and making her face it! whether u took her outta da ring it wud av been an award for her so well done there.
tbh self do mre shows with her! shell learn eventualy that its not that much of a big deal. the show cud own turned out worse.
the first show i took my foal to he was amazing got placed everytime. except within the last class, best coloured we still got placed! he arranged not 2 hardly move. he stopped at EVERY corner. lol. then the judge be checkin him over he thought itd be gr8 to eat her skirt. and started to much away. luckily she saw the funny side and understood he be a baby lol. so after all that i was glowing if i didnt get placed as he was gr8 surrounded by all da ova class'/ but turned out we got 2nd place!
i asked her y as lets facade it it dnt normaly happen she sed because shed judged me and seen me move contained by previous class and she tolerates youngsters behaviour as theyre still erudition. so win win situation.
all i say is dnt giv up and well done for stickin wiv her! =)
