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So my young filly is a great little girl. She doesn't really spook at anything, is used to me doing random things with her and accepts it. She doesn't bite, she doesn't kick, she's still working on the rest of her ground manners but overall she's a great little girl. The problem is she's INSANELY attached to her "herd". Even though we just moved to the summer turn-outs, she's out with a slightly different group of horses on the grassy pasture rather than the more bare winter pasture, she freaks out when taken away from them. It doesn't seem to be the grass so much as the horses. I give her the chance to graze and all she's concerned with is finding the other horses.

I've been trying to ride her in places other than the upper ring, which is where she has the best view of that pasture, but now she's taken to eying the winter pasture (it's turned into "fat camp" for the summer months).

I have yet to manage to talk to my barn manager about this but my barn manager is fully aware of this. Bella is the first to go out and the last to come in because she cannot be in if every other horse on the farm isn't in the barn. If even one or two other horses, ones that are in her pasture or in the other pasture, she sits there SCREAMING for them. I can't figure out what to do to help her break out of this.

This problem has only started being a major problem in the past few weeks and it's actually getting in the way of her training which frustrates me more than anything because she's such a smart girl and picks up things so quickly when she's focused.

Anyone got any ideas?

She's 2, just shy of being 3, so she's not the lead mare the other horses boss her around every chance they get (she's not the bottom of the herd though she's a feisty little girl) and even when I'm with her she's constantly looking for them, or if I walk away for her she starts looking for me me. I put her in the cross-ties while I went to get her stuff to lunge her and by the time I came out of the tack-room she was rearing in the cross-ties. Something she has NEVER done before. She is usually extremely well mannered.

I've had her for quite a while and she is well aware that I'M the boss and when she's around me that I'm the "lead mare" for her. Today I had a good friend of mine, who she sees EVERY single day and who she has bonded with, hold her while I put the other horses out and even then Bella did not give a hoot about the person it was all about the other horses.

She's currently being turned out with one other mare, who is fine without Bella in the pasture, and then four geldings. None of which care if she's in the pasture or out of it.

I got to talk to my trainer today who said that it's pretty much her just being young. She didn't have any advice on how I could work with her to get her over that yet though. Today training was nearly impossible. She was doing what I asked but her attention was clearly not focused on me.

I will check out the video, but if anyone has any suggestions or knowledge for me please, I'll at least read/listen to whatever.