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Max
was bought in 3
years ago. He
was such a kind loving horse, He
travelled back to us in fine shape and soon settled in with the other horses.
With
the help of Caroline we started the process of schooling him. In
the early stages all went well.
He
was happy to be lunged and accepted the bridle without any problems. After
a few weeks we decided to put the saddle on him in his stable. That
was when the problems started, the poor chap was petrified and acted like a
western bucking bronco, we managed to get the saddle off him and console him. He
had obviously had a very bad experience in What
to do now? Caroline and I were studying Parelli Natural horsemanship and
had gained our level one pass. We knew Parelli was the way to go for Max if we
were to overcome his fear of the saddle. If you would like to learn more of
Parelli go to this site. Caroline
and I set to work to introduce him to what we had learned from Parelli.
It
was obvious to us that he wanted to please and learnt the seven games very
quickly. Time
to try the saddle again !!!!!
Not
looking promising but gradually he got to accept the saddle.
Things
were looking promising and the day came when Caroline could sit on him. I
had tried five times before Parelli training and hit the ground every time.
A
very exciting day for us both and the future for Max was looking good.
We
walked Max every day in the school and then in the paddock. With
encouragement from me Caroline asked him to trot which he did quite happily. Now
this is really promising but things were to change !! We
think something may have startled him but the next thing we knew he was in his
old bronco state of mind and poor Caroline had a crashing fall and was out of
action for a couple of weeks. Once
again we were in a dilemma of how to continue, we were running out of ideas. Caroline
had heard of a Parelli centre in France that did a months course for colts that
had problems, it is called La Cense. You
may wish to visit their web site. www.lacense.com/site/content/harasgb/debourrage.htm Contact
was made with La Cense and sure enough they would take Max for a month. I
have a friend based in Hythe Kent who imports and exports horses all over It
was arranged for me to take Max by trailer to Hythe where he would be stabled
overnight before making the crossing the next day to France in one of John's
luxury lorries. www.johnparkerinternational.com/index.htm We
arranged with La Cense to visit Max after a month and stay for a two day course
on how to handle Max “Marie” his trainer showed us how she worked him on the
ground before sitting on him in the round pen. No crash hat and a western saddle
! ! ! But that he was not yet ready to come home and wanted to keep him
another two weeks at no extra charge. We
left Max behind and promised to come back in two weeks. Two
weeks later we left for We
spent the two days with Marie and Max going over how we should continue with him
when he came home. on the last morning Caroline rode him in the forest around La
Cense and I went with her on one of the centre's horses complete with western
saddle, not too sure about that ! John
Parker International picked Max up that day and the next time I saw him was back
in Hythe He
travelled home in my trailer very well. I
have ridden him every day for the past month and he has gone from strength to
strength. These
pictures were taken today.
The
future is bright for Max now. Thanks to Caroline's hard work and patience. And
Marie for helping us so much.
I
have to admit there were times when I thought we would never succeed. Thank
you Parelli, you have given Max a future.
September 2006
Max is going so well now I thought it would be nice if we could introduce him to the carriage.
He was remarkably calm so I went ahead and put him in the carriage
Everything was looking good after a week and it looked like he was going to be a carriage horse as well
WRONG !!!
Something startled him and he got his old fear back and bucked until the carriage came off. That was just too much for him and I decided that he was doing too well to spoil the progress made.
He is happy to ride out in company and has now started jumping, you can see from the picture that he loves it and will jump anything
Hopefully he can have some fun with us jumping in hunter trials He
has given us so much thanks to Parelli
For more information about Parelli
29/4/07 Max goes to his first hunter trial
WHAT A STAR ! ! !
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