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Location: Northwest | What can you do as a rider if you have a horse that is extremely front endy around the barrels. This particular horse is well taught but his natural style seems to override his training when it comes time to make a run. He is also push style. How do you ride it, what do you do, does certain equipment help? |
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| Make for darn sure his shoulders are free. My gelding use to have a big drop at the barrels. Even though he wasn’t sore and had good sweat patterns - we still found one that was an even better fit and freed him up. |
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Location: "Si Fi" Ville | The owner of Elliot Bits suggested a bit and it helped a bunch on my front endy horse. My horse is short in height, extremely wide, and very long backed. One of the BHW gurus(very talented person)?mentioned on here, I forgot who she is, I wish I could give her the credit for a suggestion she mentioned about driving them from behind up
under themselves and up into the bit. That was a hugely successful suggestion. |
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| Which bit did he suggest? |
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Location: "Si Fi" Ville | He suggested a sliding gag, a square snaffle mouthpiece with slight curved bars. |
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Location: Oakdale, CA | treasurehunter - 2018-09-01 12:24 PM He suggested a sliding gag, a square snaffle mouthpiece with slight curved bars.
can you post a pict??? heck I'm dying for an elliot bit... How do you get those suckers? I emailed them 6-8 months ago and wanted to get on waiting list but heard nothing back............... |
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Location: "Si Fi" Ville | I called and left a message and they called me back, not right away, it was a few days. |
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Location: "Si Fi" Ville | I bumped this back up so maybe the trainer who gave such good advice will come and post on this thread with more info like drills to help you with this.
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Location: Northwest | treasurehunter - 2018-09-04 10:41 PM
I bumped this back up so maybe the trainer who gave such good advice will come and post on this thread with more info like drills to help you with this.
Thanks! One thing I did try this weekend was a different saddle. It seemed to free up the shoulders some and he wasn't AS front endy. Not a total fix but it certainly was an improvement! |
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