I've already read the 'hard to catch mare' thread, so don't bother repeating anything you said there. I have a slightly different issue with one of our boarded horses. Remy is an ex-racehorse and of course no one has any idea what his early training and care was like, except that he was half starved when our boarder bought him. He's nine years old now and just begining to finally settle down and learn to be a horse. The problem is sometimes he just seems to get a burr up his butt and will gallop away from you out in the paddock. He's an incredibly sensetive horse and can tell from a mile away if you have bad vibes. Any time I'm already having a bad day I absolutely dread the possibility of having to catch him becuase I know he'll sense my mood and run. And boy does he run. Montana mentioned the round pen exercise. Perhaps if we had a roundpen with less space he might give up, but loose in the arena he'll just gallop like crazy. He won't come for treats. He won't let you get close enough to even know you have treats. and when he IS caught he does NOT instantly become an angel. He acts like a wild horse. He seems to have absolutely no trust in people. Even if you get lucky enough to catch him as soon as the lead shank clips on he panics and backs up rearing. Many times he's pulled the rope out of his owners hands and taken off trailing it. Once he literally would not stop running until he was completely exhausted and begining to stumble. I'm afraid he's going to hurt himself one of these days. We've even tried playing 'good cop, bad cop' with him, one person urging him on while the other offers him the escape of stopping, all to no avail. He'd be a very nice horse if just this catching issue (and his cribbing problem!) could be resolved, but as it is I sometimes spend literally a couple hours a day helping his owner catch him! Any ideas?
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