horses
Posted By: Sandi on 2005-09-23
In Reply to: have any horseback riders here lost their nerve - sm
I can't speak from personal experience, but my 16-year-old daughter had a pretty bad accident recently. She was loping her 3-year-old gelding in the riding ring when he got off the bit and decided to haul butt. He did a rollback and ended up ramming her into a wooden fence post, where she hit her face pretty good, before throwing her off. She hit a wooden fence post with her face and was pretty well banged up.
She had a show to ride in that weekend, so she did end up back on him in a day or so, but I recall her saying she was a bit freaked out about loping with him for a couple of weeks after that. She got a new, harsher bit for him after that incident, and that seems to have tamed his wilder ways for the most part.
I'd say it's normal to feel scared about it, but if you want to keep riding I don't think there's much else to do other than jump back on and get to it. Xanax might help too. Haha. For what it's worth, she's gotten over it now. It was about 5 months ago, I think. Elmo sure did learn some new words that day though! Oops!!
Good luck!
Sandi
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