OTTB Rescue - Roger's Story

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Hey everyone!
As promised, here is Roger's video time-line. It starts back in Feb of this year (2011) when we had the first ride. This was after we'd had him for a month or so.
We got him as a scraggly 7 year old, head to toe in rain scald, and three days out from ending up at the market, and lord only knows if he was to end up as dog meat :(
So my good friend Georgie rescued him, we bought him together and started all the hard work. She did hours upon hours of groundwork, and I did the ridden work.
He was completely green, had no steering whatsoever , but we could both see he had unbelievable potential, so we gave him a go.
Little by little he improved, obviously there was a lot more that we did with him then what's in the video, but we started to get him round, canter leads, and get him jumping. WHAT A JUMP he had on him, my god! I have never been on a horse with such a ping, and not only was he fun to ride, but he was safe as well, having never refused the whole time we had him.
We took him out to adult rider's club, a dressage show, and more jumping days than you can poke a stick at and started to have a lot of fun with him, but as all good things must come to an end, I had to make that rotten decision weather to keep him, or to do another rescue...
I could only afford to do one or the other, and Roger was just far too good to not be out competing, so the decision was made to advertise him.
We got a call from a lovely girl who ended up buying him, and she is going to take him out to do some eventing! He is going to be an absolute star for her, we're so happy he went to such a fantastic loving home :)

I would like to on behalf on Georgie and myself wish Jacqui all the very best of luck with Roger, we hope she has an absolute ball with him!

Thank you to Georgie for finding him and rescuing him with me, you have been the most supportive person ever dragging me out to comps, and encouraging me all the way! xx

Thank you to all my subscribers who have followed Roger and I and encouraged us, sent me a comment or a page message. I appreciate you guys so much, thank you!!

I have some big news coming which I'll announce in my next video so stay tuned!

Luv Katie xoxoxo

Category:

Sports

Tags:

• ottb
• tb
• thoroughbred
• race horse
• slaughter
• rescue
• show jumper
• sj
• EFA
• eventer
• Katie Rode

[charlieboy1091]

I LOVE THIS! he's a lucky boy:)

[KRequestrian]

@charlieboy1091 Thank you! :) xxx

[chrisvpena]

lucky guy got himself a job. ouch bits!ouch! lovely.

[KRequestrian]

@chrisvpena Not sure what you mean by ouch bits, but thanks! :)

[fcthecool]

Hey what did you do to get him to jump properly? Dane struggles to place himself and take off at the right time, and ends up going to long or short or ploughing through..

Wonderful job with him by the way.. I hope Dann and I become this great one day! It must have been so hard giving him up, but you get to make another TB's life beterr x

[KRequestrian]

@fcthecool Thank you so much! He wasn't always good at placing himself, we did HEAPS of pole work and grids. I'm talking months of it! Even just simple stuff like a pole on the ground, land in canter for one stride and pop a jump. Size doesn't matter, as long as they're jumping nicely there's no problem with keeping them small. Gives them confidence. Oh and make a HUGE fuss over them when they get it right. Lots of encouragement is the key :) xx

[chrisvpena]

ouch bits- i did some veterinary medical studies on the effects of bits. people will still use them for a long time to come, unfortunately. change is slow.

[GallowayGold]

you ride right near me! i've been to those grounds in clyde north heaps of times for comps :) do you go to a pony club?

[ThePonyExpress2011]

He was made for eventing :)

[stitchedreams]

What a wonderful video. Roger is one lucky horse to have skilled and patient trainers like you! ^_^

[fcthecool]

@KRequestrian Thanks..

He is more scared of poles than jumps.. its rather funny. He neds a l;ot more confidence thats for sure! But when it comes to cross country style juumms out in the bush he places himself perfectly and does the cutest collected canter out of them. He is a very strangeeee horse.

[AnnaFlight]

Wow, what a difference!