xForeverEquine166x your sciz-o-wiz scizzors

I'm pretty nervous when it comes to talking on the phone too...

+Celsa Natasha Bilardello I thought I was the only one! me too!

I used to have a barn manager like that.

The Welsh and The Mini Why are there too many crazy people out there? ;)

I hope you are gonna have professional help on hand to train that horse. Someone who's twelve just isn't equipped to deal with a "crazy un-trained horse", even with nine years experience. Starting a horse is a massive deal and you need to spend at least a year on groundwork manners before you even consider breaking them in.

***** What the hell were you thinking?! I hope that horse is damned near perfect now for your and its sake because that was incredibly irresponsible.

Charlotte Roberts who are you to tell her what to do. When I was 10 I got an untrained Arabian mare. Used to buck rear and throw everyone off didn't take a bit and was afraid of a saddle. Now I'm 13 she jumps 3ft has placed first at state shows never bucks or rears. I had no help professional or amateur it was just me. So plz don't judge people because they are young

Rose Suddard I did because I have seen enough children try and train horses around me and the horses almost always need professional help to fix what these kids do. Taking what you say as truth then you are a damn sight better than all the children training horses I have ever come across and am very surprised -- good for you! Although if someone's riding her enough to be bucked and reared, she's not completely untrained and they should not be allowed around horses. HOWEVER, your personal experience played up against my years of seeing amateurs ruin horses becomes an anomaly. It is completely irresponsible a child to train a horse, these animals are incredibly dangerous unless handled properly and many children have no idea how to work them. Parents especially shouldn't let their children (under 16s) train unhandled/trained horses. There are enough ruined horses in the world and your experience with your horse is amazing, and once again, well done, but I have seen enough horses ruined by their young trainers. You should never attempt to train a horse without adequate experience, and that experience comes hand in hand with age. If someone's been helping their parent/trainer train since they were very young they can do a lot of it, but supervised!!

Very true I really hate seeing ruined horses. Red wasn't totally untrained but what she knew was all wrong so I had to let her just forget about it and start from square one. I had adult supervision but they didn't interfere with her training at all. I had also been taking lessons on other horses and showing almost my whole life. So I had a lot of experience. Well a lot for my age. She has only thrown me 4 times and that was in her early jumping training that I started less than a year ago. But thank you. I also have seen way to many ruined horses trained by children and even adults that call themselves professionals. Red still has a very long way to go until she can be called perfect but I'm just happy with her current training Charlotte Roberts

You can't just become an amazing show jumper. You've actually got to enter show jumping shows, doing training sessions with different people and WORK ON DRESSAGE!!! You should take dressage lessons if you want to do well in show jumping.