COMPLETE BACK FLIP

PLEASE SHOW RESPECT BY READING DESCRIPTIONS BEFORE COMMENTING.

We bought this horse as "State of Grace" from Lindsey Solorzano, with hopes of her bringing my daughter up though the eventing levels. This video is a section of a dressage test at our first show. Not quite the results we had expected.

Here is a link to some video of Zoey in a prior dressage lesson: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osPRU-WpAe8
This is how she normally was. She had never even attempted to rear prior to this.

I knew coming into it that our free walk would be a low score, due to lack of stretch and relaxation at her first show, but I definitely underestimated the extent. Also, PLEASE NOTE, we had just gotten her a couple of months before this video was taken. I am well aware that she needed to put on weight and muscle...she was a typical hard-keeper of a Thoroughbred with a bit of a Herring Gut (tucked up stomach). Coming out of the corner she wanted to pick up the trot as I picked up my reins, I asked her to continue walking, and she protested.

UPDATE: Zoey was a sweet pasture ornament for the next year following this video. We never did figure out much about what caused the issue, although my instinct is that it was something physical, but she was never shown again. Of course, we had a full physical evaluation by a vet, equine chiropractor, and equine dentist. She passed away suddenly due to anaphylactic shock in August of 2010. Thanks everyone for your suggestions and input.

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[xflyingchangex]

In my opinion, a horse that rears that willingly is not a safe horse. Even if the rider pulled the reins or leaned back or irritated the horse in some way, rearing is a dangerous behavior, and horses know that. If this horse judged a full rear to be an appropriate response to an irritation from her rider, she is not a horse I would want to be riding!

Kudos to you, owner, for letting her live out her days as a pasture pet! An unsuitable riding horse doesn't have to be an abandoned horse.

[scrubsaddict247]

Can't help but wonder at all these 'you can't ride' 'don't pull reins' etc comments!

She gave a little check to ask for her head bak when horse first hollowed and stayed in balance to pretty much vertical without lifting her hands till both of them lost balance!

These things happen (admittedly usually with a tad more warning!!!) and in that split second your reaction can be good or not so good. Anyway i'd say this was a good reaction really.

Sorry for the loss of your horse.

[Theponypineapple]

I am so sorry for the loss of her, she was gorgeous and it is such a shame Im very sorry for the loss

[phantomsoulplayer]

@Steffiklein Ah I see. Well a dressage saddle does sit a bit further back and they generally have a longer flap than a hunt seat but maybe she had the saddle flocked or something. XD I think some people got the wrong idea from your first question~

[Steffiklein]

@phantomsoulplayer No of course not! :D

Sorry, don't know if my first comment was perfectly correct cause i'm not english and i'm sometimes not sure bout some words :P

so, i was not talking about the weight of the saddle, i just thought that the shape of the saddle might not fit with her back because it looks like the saddle flaps are to long for her back.. and the saddle is not in the right position i think...because of her bag it slides backwards while riding...

:D better?:)

[purplehaze26]

If you dont want people writing bad comments or disliking the video, dont write a misleading title then. Douche.

[phantomsoulplayer]

@Steffiklein Can't quite decide what you're asking. Are you under the impression that a dressage saddle is heavy? o__o'

[Steffiklein]

@wattamus there's nothing sad about the saddle? xD

[wattamus]

@Steffiklein read desc?

[Steffiklein]

a dressage saddle on this back...?!?!

How could this work? O.o

I know a horse with the exact same physique, just a little worse, so he has very hard problems with a jumping saddle...does this saddle fit her?

Don't want to fight! ;)

I just really wondered, for me this is unexplainable how you can get the idea to put a dressage saddle on her xD

[JolliesHorses]

That is so freaking scared..... O_o

[QHriderke]

I think her conformation would have been the physical reason why she was never shown again.