> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://www.myvirtualeventingcoach.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # Guest Blog post # 29: "When it's Not Working" by the famous Bad Eventer! - URL: https://www.myvirtualeventingcoach.com/guest-blog-29-when-its-not-working-by-bad-eventer/ - Published: 2013-11-09T21:02:00.000Z - Updated: 2013-11-09T21:02:20.000Z - Author: Administrator - Tags: Blog, #Import 2026-01-20 00:55 OCT26 # [When it's not working........](http://badeventer.blogspot.com/2013/10/when-its-not-working.html?ref=myvirtualeventingcoach.com) ![](http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-tMV3k7bNRMs/UmxqR5T_5LI/AAAAAAAAINA/UPRw9GVRk-Q/s640/BE+K+QP+1s+%2528683x1024%2529.jpg) Baby Seabiscuit (one of my 5yo OTTB projects) has made me think about another youngster I had some trouble with awhile back. [![](http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-fFUYb6cV7Qg/Um03gsPk5qI/AAAAAAAAIPw/z2L18NLz-CM/s320/BE+smash+1.jpg)](http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-fFUYb6cV7Qg/Um03gsPk5qI/AAAAAAAAIPw/z2L18NLz-CM/s1600/BE+smash+1.jpg?ref=myvirtualeventingcoach.com) I'm sure NO ONE believes the Super Pony ever acted like that. [![](http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-MPxQLAcXnEk/Um05ZKCC-nI/AAAAAAAAIP8/UsZlT0tp2lY/s400/BE+Lav+2.jpg)](http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-MPxQLAcXnEk/Um05ZKCC-nI/AAAAAAAAIP8/UsZlT0tp2lY/s1600/BE+Lav+2.jpg?ref=myvirtualeventingcoach.com) While I am Bad at Eventing.......... [![](http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-BHX2Jeoxw9A/UmxqrOavRzI/AAAAAAAAINE/dKylXnNNGIg/s400/BE+R+15.jpg)](http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-BHX2Jeoxw9A/UmxqrOavRzI/AAAAAAAAINE/dKylXnNNGIg/s1600/BE+R+15.jpg?ref=myvirtualeventingcoach.com) um....Bad Eventer here I've always been good with the babies. [![](http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-GIiBOVOYAME/Umxrvzfr1xI/AAAAAAAAINY/V2dEyq8ho8w/s320/Amazing+Perfection+bag+(1024x809).jpg)](http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-GIiBOVOYAME/Umxrvzfr1xI/AAAAAAAAINY/V2dEyq8ho8w/s1600/Amazing+Perfection+bag+%281024x809%29.jpg?ref=myvirtualeventingcoach.com) This cute little mare [![](http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-66KIqw5P1oc/Umxx9oYKcEI/AAAAAAAAINo/bBLONZv08-I/s400/Abby.jpg)](http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-66KIqw5P1oc/Umxx9oYKcEI/AAAAAAAAINo/bBLONZv08-I/s1600/Abby.jpg?ref=myvirtualeventingcoach.com) was the first horse I started completely on my own. She was 4......... I was 14. My problems usually start when I cross over from "starting babies" to trying to event them. ![](http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-e8hF3uggvIA/Umxy-EOF7jI/AAAAAAAAINw/Mt-RoIih-rs/s1600/girl+face+frustrated.jpg) The baby basics..............I've got. [![](http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-IGbs-UiPHuk/UmxzMWJT3bI/AAAAAAAAIN4/pNQg5ztxk0A/s320/Bluebell+tarp+sepia.jpg)](http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-IGbs-UiPHuk/UmxzMWJT3bI/AAAAAAAAIN4/pNQg5ztxk0A/s1600/Bluebell+tarp+sepia.jpg?ref=myvirtualeventingcoach.com) This is my 3 year old Connemara filly, a future star! A few years back I was trying to move up on one of my home bred ponies. [![](http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Yti7P31vjeo/Umx0mkr_f-I/AAAAAAAAIOE/UBHcfQc7zks/s640/Lav+RH+1.jpg)](http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Yti7P31vjeo/Umx0mkr%5Ff-I/AAAAAAAAIOE/UBHcfQc7zks/s1600/Lav+RH+1.jpg?ref=myvirtualeventingcoach.com) And it was not going well. [![](http://4.bp.blogspot.com/--BepPeY4zbM/Umx1jSNomnI/AAAAAAAAIOM/94QbWXo_ktU/s320/horse+cartoon+angry.jpg)](http://4.bp.blogspot.com/--BepPeY4zbM/Umx1jSNomnI/AAAAAAAAIOM/94QbWXo%5FktU/s1600/horse+cartoon+angry.jpg?ref=myvirtualeventingcoach.com) Somewhere between seasons she had started rushing at the fences, and smashing them to the ground. ![](http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-u36f6u2kXvk/Umx10taN93I/AAAAAAAAIOU/o5mBKkesmAE/s1600/horse+cartoon+4.jpg) I tried......... everything. Circling, stopping before the fence, stopping after the fence, smaller jumps. bigger jumps, different bits, different saddles, different warm ups, different approaches............ ![](http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-5WnHib5uNBo/Umx8yq2vphI/AAAAAAAAIOs/3SU5t93qS18/s1600/Argue+face+4.jpg) Nothing worked and the more I tried to fix it, the more things started to unravel...... This was filmed during my last jump school before we had planned to move up a level. [Bad Pony Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YiGCGOG7iR0&ref=myvirtualeventingcoach.com) That resulted in a panicked call to the show secretary where I begged my way into a lower division. ![](http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-mCxJL30ZgIA/Umx9d18Eq6I/AAAAAAAAIO0/grxK7tyMBuU/s1600/chicken+cartoon.jpg) I decided after that fiasco that IT WASN'T WORKING!! Every tactic I'd tried was unsuccessful..... and I began pondering what else I could possibly do?? ![](http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-3_I_6-K29hU/Umx9xutmnZI/AAAAAAAAIO8/YPxsUPOCUpM/s1600/face+skeptical+1.jpg) Maybe............ I needed to just LET her run at the jumps............. ![](http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-wyAABFrWXmk/Umx-GqpXHDI/AAAAAAAAIPE/Fa6uwCsTZn8/s1600/scared+face+3.jpg) ..........until she was bored with it, and figured out there was no reason for that kind of behavior. WHY NOT? Nothing else had worked. I put a halter on her so I couldn't do much about the rushing.My goal after all was for HER to figure it out. I went to the arena fully prepared to gallop at fences willy nilly until she decided it just wasn't worth all that extra effort. ![](http://1.bp.blogspot.com/--tWIgSepy-Y/Umx8eAzgh7I/AAAAAAAAIOk/4TSrtRgSIM8/s1600/horse+running+cartoon.jpg) I updated my will............. and said my good byes...... I pointed her at the first jump and............... [![](http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-_C4-yfrmWhM/Umx-gFgve2I/AAAAAAAAIPM/3oImtdfzYrI/s400/Lavender+stadium.jpg)](http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-%5FC4-yfrmWhM/Umx-gFgve2I/AAAAAAAAIPM/3oImtdfzYrI/s1600/Lavender+stadium.jpg?ref=myvirtualeventingcoach.com) nothing....... She cantered around like a hunter pony. ![](http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4IYC_xy0XDI/UmyBVSHWcYI/AAAAAAAAIPg/SxtYJTLtA4M/s1600/exclamation+1.jpg) There's nothing quite like the moment when you figure out it was all you.............. ![](http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-bzqiDmk1lS0/Umx_GYYnQWI/AAAAAAAAIPU/4feBYodry2k/s1600/monkey+face+1.jpg) Bad Eventer strikes again. 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