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Teaching a horse to collect (True collection)

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Prairie Rouge
Reg. Jan 2017
Posted 2018-09-05 1:51 PM
Subject: Teaching a horse to collect (True collection)


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How does everyone teach their horse to collect their body when riding them - making sure their back is round, hind legs are reaching under them, etc.

Also, does a nice headset come with the horse collecting their body?
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Nateracer
Reg. Feb 2008
Posted 2018-09-05 2:25 PM
Subject: RE: Teaching a horse to collect (True collection)



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Drive them forward into the bit. 

True collection doesn't equal perfect headset, but for their body to be balanced, their head and neck need to be at a place where they can function properly.    It depends on what you think is a perfect headset.  If you think a reiner, low tuck type, is a perfect headset, then NO a horse doesn't need that for true collection.
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stayceem
Reg. May 2007
Posted 2018-09-05 5:24 PM
Subject: RE: Teaching a horse to collect (True collection)



Not Afraid to Work


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I had to take some lessons to get my mare really collecting nice. I went to a dressage trainer and we spent a lot of time not worried about her face at all but rounding her back, driving underneath and 'toes in front of nose." It was a lot of leg pressure and for my mare a lot of transitions. She is more of a reiner so her headset and my gelding who is more English built look entirely different.

To many my gelding looks to be more collected but in reality my mare is.
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Delta Cowgirl
Reg. Apr 2005
Posted 2018-09-06 7:01 AM
Subject: RE: Teaching a horse to collect (True collection)



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Location: Slipping down the slope of old age. Boo hoo.		Lynn Palm's book on collection is awesome -- regarding what it is and how to get it.
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