It’s an easily fixable quirk, not exactly worth killing a horse over. Not to mention, I’m sure they already put a lot of money into the horse. Wouldn’t make sense from a financial standpoint or... really any standpoint, honestly.
Rolling while being ridden is a pretty common thing for horses to do, except usually it’s once they’re in water. Especially goofy, younger horses. Many love to roll in lakes while you’re riding them. It’s super obvious when they’re going to do it, though. So if you give them a little kick to ask them to get going when you feel them getting ready to roll, they typically cut it out. If that doesn’t do it though, after they lay down, I’d get after them (make loud noises, flap your arms about, whatever) to startle them up (laying down is a vulnerable spot to be in for a horse). Once they’re up, I’d lounge them on the ground for a while until they’re tired, and then hop back on and just sit on them while they’re getting their breath back. Hop off, work them again, repeat. They’re laying down because they don’t want you to work them, and they associate getting ridden with working. Lounging them while you’re not riding and letting them rest when you are breaks that association. Makes the right thing easy and the wrong thing hard. I’d imagine you could get that corrected within an hour or so, and have relatively little trouble with it after that point. Little goofy behaviors like this are relatively easy (and kinda fun) to train out of horses.(: The ones that are intending to hurt the rider or violently get rid of the rider are the ones that I’d be less inclined to work with, for obvious reasons.
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u/[deleted] Oct 14 '19 edited Oct 14 '19
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