Angela

i have seen quite a few episodes but i want to watch all the episodes from every single series.

it is a flame point ragdoll male.

I want it to have a name like Alfie, Hugo, Spencer etc. but not actually one of those names. Any ideas?

he is a 10 year old TB x Irish Draught Gelding. 15.2hh

He is broken to ride, and has just come back from 6 weeks of professional schooling as he had quite a number of behavioural issues such as rearing, could not put leg on to ask him forward without him rearing, could not even show him a whip without him rearing.

He has come back a LOT better, he no longer rears, you can put leg on to ask him forward and if need be you can now use a whip as he doesn't rear when he sees one. He rides out alone and in company.

The only problem he has now is when you are out on a ride and ask him to stand still he starts to fidget around a lot and throws in a couple of mini rears (feet barely off the floor).

the trainer came out to see him at our yard yesterday and rode him out, and he did all this for the trainer too (which he hadn't been doing at the trainers yard). the trainer basically said some of it is down to his personality and some of it is due to the fact that my dad is still only a novice rider (as it's my dads horse). the personality part is like, basically yesterday, he tried to 'challenge' the trainer when he was riding. the trainer took him for a gallop round the field to get rid of some of his energy, and the horse would not slow down at all, so the trainer had to take him round again until he eventually got him to slow down.

the trainer basically said that if we keep him he will need to be ridden in a menage 4/5 times a week for approx. 6 months in order to get him to calm down and also for my dads riding to improve enough to cope with the horse when out hacking. he said the other option was to sell him to an experienced rider who would be able to handle him as he is a difficult horse and tries to get away with things when he knows he can.

since we do not have a menage of our own we have decided that it may be better to sell him on, but are very unsure of what sort of price to ask for him.

when on the ground with him he is the most lovable horse you could imagine. he is a dream to lead, has never bitten or kicked, good to pick feet out, good with farrier, dentist and back specialists (there is nothing wrong with his back, we just got her out to see if this was why he misbehaved but it wasn't), he loads in a trailer straight away with no fuss, and is good to catch.

he is good to ride now, apart from when he gets a bit headstrong, which is why he needs an experienced rider, not a novice like my dad.

any idea what price we should ask for him? i'm from the UK so prices in £ please not $

I have a 16.2hh 13 year old thoroughbred. She is an ex-racehorse.

Generally she is a calm, easy going mare, but the last 3 times i've ridden her i've noticed new behaviour developing.

The first time she started showing this new behaviour I rode her out for about 45 mins, and then she began rearing. My dad was walking with me so he then held her under her noseband the rest of the way home so that she couldn't rear but she was still extremely light on her front feet as though she wanted to rear again all the way home.

The second time I rode her out with some others from my yard and she was extremely well behaved all the way out. I then rode her back down to the field (with my dad there again). She rode down well and even stood for about 10mins completely still with no fidgeting while my dad went to talk to one of his friends. We set off again and have to cross a field. As soon as we got on to the grass she became extremely light on her feet again and had her head very high in the air, so my dad again held her under the noseband so she couldn't rear. She was still behaving in this way even when we got off the grass so I trotted her and she held her head even higher and was still really light on her front feet and trying to pull away from me.

The third time I rode her with this behaviour I took her out around the lanes and dirt tracks surrounding my yard. my sister rode her first but on a lead rope as she is only young. Beau (the horse) had her head unusually high from when we first set off from the yard, my sister then had a trot on her and during and after this beau had her head even higher, she kept her head this high even when in walk and was light on her front feet again. I then got on and she was even worse when off the lead rope with her head high and mini rears thrown in. I took her to a spot where we can gallop to try and burn off some energy in case this was the problem, after which she calmed down for approximately 2 minutes, then tried rearing again but I managed to ride her through it.

She has never done anything like this before in the 3 years we have had her. I doubt its her teeth as the dentist was out approx. 7 months ago and filed her teeth. And she has been ridden in this saddle and bridle since before we even bought her as she came with this tack so I doubt it's the tack either.

Any ideas what could be causing her to do this? And how to prevent it as it's starting to unnerve me as I have had a rearing horse fall and land on me before when riding.