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 1D Lawn Mower
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Location: Southeast, Texas | To get a young horse working from the hind end, and really using themselves correctly. I have a very tall and gangly filly, she is a good three inches higher in her butt at the moment, she works beautifully but has trouble really collecting and staying on her hind end in turns. Probably due to the five foot long legs! [= She is still growing, and she is only being slow worked but at a lope she just feels like she is all over. We back a lot at our rate points and really flex around a barrel. Lots of five barrel exercises with backing.. What are your favorite exercises on your horses? |
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Sock Snob
Posts: 3021
| Lot of,stopping and backing, like a reiner would do. |
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Expert
Posts: 2685
 
| Bump. I'm interested. Putting a young horse on the barrels for the first time in a few years. I would like to do this one right. She'll be my go horse next year! Lol |
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 Accident Prone
Posts: 22277
Location: 100 miles from Nowhere, AR | Transitions, changes of direction, ground poles/cavalettis, riding in the woods if you can, and hill work. She needs to learn where her feet are, so you put her in situations where she has to think about where her feet are, and eventually she will be able to do it without thinking. |
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1D Lawn Mower
Posts: 1417
Location: Southeast, Texas | We have been working lightly over ground poles. She is getting better about that, it was a disaster at first. Unfortunately I live in the flat lands. She has been trail ridden, but not much. We back, and back, and stop, and back. [= I know she's bound to be getting bored with my same old exercises, but she is still like a bird who is learning to fly when it comes to using herself.  Babies! |
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  Whack and Roll
Posts: 6342
Location: NE Texas | I had a big gangly colt once that as a 3 YO couldn't lope a circle in a 5 acre field without stumbling and drifting and just riding like a rubber band. He was a big colt too. I had ridden him in a german martingale to try and get some collection, but it seemed to make him worse. I was dating a guy that trained cutters at the time and we put him in a solid mouthpiece bit with a square port and solid shanks and worked him on the cutting flag and he was a different horse in a week. I was loping him through handily and hauling him 30 days after that. I'd love to invest in a flag to use for all my horses! |
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 Chasin my Dream
Posts: 13651
Location: Alberta | Three 4 Luck - 2014-07-22 8:00 AM Transitions, changes of direction, ground poles/cavalettis, riding in the woods if you can, and hill work. She needs to learn where her feet are, so you put her in situations where she has to think about where her feet are, and eventually she will be able to do it without thinking.
All of the above...my colt has a very good stop to him so I don't always like doing a lot of stopping...forward movement builds their confidence to use their feet and body too, then add the finer touches.....IMO....since my goal is forward FAST eventually....
Edited by dream_chaser 2014-07-22 3:02 PM
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