06/10/2025
Patience Patience Patience and then some?
One thing I've noticed over the years is how easy it is to give up on a horse. If you don't have the answer, someone else might, but I also see that if you can't fix it, no one else can!!
1, Starting to assess a horses capabilities just won't happen overnight or in a few weeks.
2, Fascia heals slowly to recover its most effective way, so take the time.
3, less of the, it will be sorted in a few weeks, try maybe a few months or even two or three years.
4. It's not just about muscles. Building them up that's only a small part of it.
5, Reducing the workload to encourage the healing process.
6, Remembering it's not about you.....
7, Being able to judge how much a horse can cope with is key to its development.
8. Slow down your expectations when a horse has to adjust to a different way of using itself.
9, Paitience, how much do you need? As much as you can give it.
10, Quick fixes are only just a sticking plaster or only last short-term.
11, Any horse should be given the time to adjust postural incorrectness.
12, Its mindset is one of the most difficult things to adjust to how it's been trained either under or over trained.
13, Yes of course it can be challenging but thats part of the process.
14, Achieving those changes, developing takes time, it's just won't happen overnight.
15, Reducing your expectations to begin with helps you see the small positives they have.
16, Those who bring the answers to those difficult questions recieve the biggest rewards.....
It would be way too easy if it was always that simple. Some horses aren't always in a good place....... but from a starting point its the way forward.
