Re: Tuesday night the rescue remedy is coming out !!!!

 you dont need luck! you'll be fine!!  just make sure you put some brave pants on and get a good song stuck in your head and sing away untill your hearts content! you may sound a bit crazy but it helps no end - i find it helps to pretend to be a cool dude - thats how i think about - and then i just shrug everything off - when pip has a tantrum the first toy to go out is the rearing so i just sit there like. yeah okay thats cool - you rear and then we'll carry on, k? it sounds mad i just ignor the rearing and she gets no reaction she'll go up upto ten times but they always give up if theres no reaction then we carry on - i have numerous videos of this! being a cool dude also keeps you relaxed so shes less likely to rear if theres no tension! good luck im sure you'll be fine - is it the same friend coming out with you as who has been riding her?

Re: Tuesday night the rescue remedy is coming out !!!!

 Good luck Lyn, I know how hard it is to do, but think happy thoughts and imagine yourself as fearless with a big smile on your face doing exactly what you want to.  Try not to have any "I'm afraid thoughts" at all.  Think positive and ride positive - says she who's had moments in life where her legs have been like jelly at the thought of getting on Tommy 

Re: Tuesday night the rescue remedy is coming out !!!!

I was told to stop a horse from rearing knot bale twine in the end of the horses tail take the twine between the back legs and tie the end on to the girth. The horse can`t rear because he needs his tail to balance. I never had to try it so I just hope it is true.

Re: Tuesday night the rescue remedy is coming out !!!!

I'm sure things will be fine, Lyn,  rescue remedy before you start, and then lots of deep breaths during.

And yeah, the singing helps as Leanne says, as it makes you breathe properly, but whether you can actually think about singing in those circs, I don't know.

Grouse did rear with me a couple of times, but oddly enough only when I'd stopped to chat to someone on the road, and he thought we ought to be getting on with things, so in his case it was impatience ! And he never did it in company, only on his own, so probably a little bit of insecurity there as well.

Trudi's thing about the tail - yes, I can see the logic there, but I don't know that I'd want to try it !!

Good luck anyway, will be thinking of you and keeping fingers crossed :o)

Re: Tuesday night the rescue remedy is coming out !!!!

Glad it went so well Lyn, all that positive thinking obviously worked !!

Good luck for the next time and a bit of trotting :o)