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Bibliafarm Reg. Jul 2008	Posted 2014-01-17 9:13 PM Subject: RE: Help, please!
Warmblood with Wings Posts: 27846 Location: Florida..	to teach your horse basic stuff like bending in ribs and or moving over and lateral work a tom thumb is the last thing you need . nor shanked bits.. get a 3 piece snaffle and ride with both hands so when asking to move over you can support the outside with outside rein and leg but move it out slightly and give room for horse .. so horse will move over. keeping shoulders square.. then you can work on bending in ribs etc.. get the horse listening to you no matter what you want ..with its body not head. imho. body control is the best thing to know ..
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rockinj Reg. Nov 2007	Posted 2014-01-19 5:09 PM Subject: RE: Help, please!
Elite Veteran Posts: 902 Location: Qld Australia	Yu need to retrain her to know that a snaffle does not mean run. One rein stop the run out of her. If she is disrespecting you with this, she will continue to try things along the way. Any updates?
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RodeoRider97 Reg. Oct 2011	Posted 2014-01-21 5:53 PM Subject: RE: Help, please!
Veteran Posts: 193 Location: USA	~Update~ I actually re-worked her in my snaffle bit and she did fairly well she stopped a bit better! Her turning was kinda slow but that's because I worked her in the round pen for a little while since she had been in the stall for 3 days and was hyper so I worked her where she was a little calmer. And she did very good I only walked her though since it was still a little frozen in some places and a very slick muddy ground in other spots. Now after I re-train her with the snaffle bit should I use it on our runs or my Million-Dollar bit so that way she knows the difference between the bits when I actually want her to run or go faster and go slower and do slow work with my snaffle?
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cheryl makofka Reg. Jan 2011	Posted 2014-01-21 6:00 PM Subject: RE: Help, please!
The Advice Guru Posts: 6419	RodeoRider97 - 2014-01-21 5:53 PM ~Update~ I actually re-worked her in my snaffle bit and she did fairly well she stopped a bit better! Her turning was kinda slow but that's because I worked her in the round pen for a little while since she had been in the stall for 3 days and was hyper so I worked her where she was a little calmer. And she did very good I only walked her though since it was still a little frozen in some places and a very slick muddy ground in other spots. Now after I re-train her with the snaffle bit should I use it on our runs or my Million-Dollar bit so that way she knows the difference between the bits when I actually want her to run or go faster and go slower and do slow work with my snaffle? I don't bit a horse up until they show me they need bitting up. When I start my barrel pattern, I start in a 3 piece snaffle and I have successfully ran many in a snaffle, I don't start changing bits till I am high loping any they aren't responding g quick enough, I then go to a sweet six, if that bit doesn't work I will go to an Ed wright short shank, or Sheri cervi diamond lifter. I have only had one horse that I would warm up in a snaffle and run in a grasshopper, this is be a use he was extremely light until he was running full tilt to first, the grasshopper gave me that extra rate. I didn't start using the grasshopper till he was running by the first.
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RodeoRider97 Reg. Oct 2011	Posted 2014-01-21 6:16 PM Subject: RE: Help, please!
Veteran Posts: 193 Location: USA	Well, I didn't mean now, like I just go a rodeo and run her in it. I meant later on, guess I should of put that in. But I was always told to run your horse in something different then what you practice in. It's ok to work them in it 1-2 per week or every 2 weeks. But not anymore because I also heard from Ty Mitchell himself that "it'll cause the horse to throw his head out" I went to a week barrel clinic at her ranch last year and although it wasn't with my TB mare I use the drills and exercises I learned from there and apply them to her. ( I use a Million-Dollar bit which is a combination bit) I Don't train her as hard of course but I do work her where she'll understand it. She's a very quick learner and if she started running barrels she'd be more of a free runner I think. She also has a VERY soft mouth
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