Toffy Problems

hehehe after I posted my last post I re-read the title again.... That sounds awful.
But this is going to be as short as I can make it. I wanted to talk about Toffy.
So Aleythia went there Tuesday, rode Toffy, and got bucked off.
I was sitting in out little sun room/sitting room, and she walks in, sits down, and asks me what the heck is going on with this horse.
She had asked Terry and he suggested getting a longer longe line and galloping her around and see if that creates a problem for her. The other thing he suggested was that we tighten the back cinch a bit more.
We are going to try this, but I was thinking about it, and here's my thoughts.
We have trotted Toffy quite a few times before. She should not have a problem with trotting. You can't really blame it on her not being worked for a while, because we had worked with her a few days before the incident.
There were two things we changed the day she bucked me off.
1) we put the back cinch on
2) We used a different saddle
I don't think it's the back cinch, because she will canter, turn, and back up without a single reaction to the back cinch. Also the first time I got bucked off I did a little bit of desensitizing to the straps of the back cinch. She did have a little reaction, but if that would have been the problem she would have reacted a lot more violently. So the back cinch isn't the problem.
That leaves the saddle.
If it's the saddle why wouldn't she buck when we weren't on her?
I'm thinking it's because of the added weight. When we get into the saddle something starts to hurt. It's amplified when we trot, and she can't get away from it, so she bucks.
So here's our plan of action.
We will tighten up the back cinch, switch out saddles, and longe her on a longe line.
When we want to ride. One of us will be on the ground leading while the other is in the saddle. We'll walk around, and trot, while someone is leading.
That's to help the rider be less worried about it (you try getting bucked off the same horse a couple times and see how worried you are about it), and also because the person on the ground will have more control than the person in the saddle.
The other thing is that when we trot her with someone leading we'll only go a couple of steps before going back to a walk. Just to give her confidence about it, and to not let her get worried about it.
Aleythia says that she gives you a couple seconds notice before she explodes. so if someone is leading she won't have the time to get all worked up about it.
We'll also get into a bigger paddock. The reason we fall off is not so much that she bucks so hard; it's because when she gets to a fence she turns very quickly.
So wish us luck, pray that we don't get ourselves killed, and I'll let you know how it goes tonight.