You folks who know lots more about this sort of thing ...
Between one week and the next, Hoover began to have an issue, canter only,
to the right only. The left cannon bone had new marks as though he'd
kicked
someone through the fence but no other signs of anything new.
He is perfectly fine at all gaits to the left, ridden or lunged with tack,
no side reins.
He is perfectly fine at W/T to the right but asked to canter to the right,
whether ridden or lunged with tack, he bucks. He kicks up with both hinds,
he lurches out speedily, and generally looks and feels stiff and choppy.
He's not ugly about it ridden, you can feel him start to bunch up and hop
and stop it all but it's still there.
Last time I lunged him myself, he seemed better. Still too fast but
willing
to canter and not kicking out. However one of my instructor's really good
students rode him yesterday, after lunging, (full disclosure by me for her
to be careful), and he's still demonstrating this behavior.
It does seem that you can work him out of most of it by spiraling in/out
and
improving his bend to the right.
I have not lunged him without a saddle yet. Tomorrow, I'll do that. The
student is going to ride him a couple days a week while I don't have the
spare time. More proper work may fix this or aggravate it to where we can
find something.
Clues? He's always been very sensitive to pressure at canter but he does
it
when I'm not mounted. Which makes me wonder (once again) about saddle fit.
Could this be muscular/joint from arguing with someone through/over the
fences?
Emily - loves her ponies and hates things that are too subtle to find and
fix
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