Gizmo

Hi,

My daughter is having classes on a well behaved and trained horse. Now we have been asked if we would like to take over ownership of another horse, due to that the current owners are moving and cannot take the horse with.

Firstly this is not a horse for a child, but could be a nice horse for my daugther when she gets older. But the other thing is that the horse seems more aggressive or less disciplined as my daugthers horse.

Do you have any advice how I could get more discipline in the horse, as the horse is now 4 years old?

Miller

Hi,
What do you mean by "agressive"? Is it just because the horse is so young, or is it because it hasn't respect?? What does the horse that you call it agressive?
If the horse is four, I think you can change a lot, but I can not imagine what exacly youre meaning...

greets

purplefdu

A four year old is most likely just strong and heavy on the forehand and hasn't been schooled enough to have the perfect manners of the horse your daughter currently uses for lessons (most likely aged 8-early teens) or the schooling time. Even racehorses haven't developed decent manners at four years most times and they are started much earlier than the average pleasure horse. If you decide to take on this horse you will need to either work with it yourself or pay a trainer to school it regularly to help teach it how to carry itself and behave. However depending on the age of your daughter this could be years before she is able to safely handle a younger horse and you could save much by passing up this horse and buying a horse when she's ready later on. Kind of like taking the training wheels off a bike, if the bike needed fed and trained and paid attention to.

SpiritWind

That just made me giggle.

Gizmo, how old is your daughter? I know an 8 year old that could take on the most spirited horse on the planet and teach it manners.

If you are worried about her experience, but think she could seriously get in to horses, like showing, training, stabling, what kind of passion does she have for them, and the horse is just young and still learning, you could get schooling for your daughter to train the horse. They could go together.

If this is just for fun, and not a serious passion your daughter has, and no trained adult would want to take the time with this animal, then it's probably better to decline.

Hollywood Gold

I am not convinced that buying a horse just because it is for sell coincidentally, is the way things are supposed to happen

If you do plan buying a horse for your daughter you should look for some horse that actually fits and not just choose the first one that is offered to you