|
|
Member
Posts: 24
Location: Canada | Hey everyone, I got a new colt about 4 months ago, he is turning 3 end of August. This will be the first horse I am starting so am really wanting to get it right. I haven’t had time to work with him the first couple months but am now getting in to things. We are doing round penning work. He is good at the walk and pretty good at the trot but I cannot seem to get him loping. I push him hard and he breaks into a super fast trot and runs into the panels - hitting his legs, and I’m scared he’s going to injure himself. I thought maybe the round pen was too small (haven’t had that problem with my broke horses though. Took him to a friends place where they have a larger round pen and he was doing the exact same thing. I then tried putting him on the lunge line in the round pen and he was ripping my arm off. Like I said this is the first young horse I’ve started. Any advice would be appreciated. (: |
|
| |
|
Member
Posts: 24
Location: Canada | Forgot to mention he definitely is a lazier horse and can be a bit pushy on the ground - which he has been getting better at. Should I just start him from scratch and just train him to the lunge-line in the arena? When I lunge him he always pulls and will stop near the gate and pull back and go crazy. I do not have the extra money to send him to any sort of training at this time, or I would. Thanks everyone |
|
| |
|
 Take a Picture
Posts: 12842
   
| See if you can get Clinton Anderson's Round Penning for Respect DVD. Stacy Westfall's round penning videos are good too that is what I use.
Edited by streakysox 2017-07-31 9:32 PM
|
|
| |
|
  Keeper of the King Snake
Posts: 7622
Location: Dubach, LA | If you have access to a good size round pen and a really broke horse, you can push him from horseback or you could pony him. |
|
| |
|
Veteran
Posts: 233
| He's still a baby. Loping circles is hard work, and they have to be balanced to do it. If he's responsive and obedient w/t, I'd leave it at that. At 3, he doesn't need to be worked more than 3 days a week, and it's only want one of those days in the round pen, if any. Preferably long straight lines. I like the ponying idea, if you've got an older horse you can lead from. |
|
| |
|
 ...Dot Dot Dot...
Posts: 2064
Location: SW New Mexico | hannahbug - 2017-08-02 7:40 AM
He's still a baby. Loping circles is hard work, and they have to be balanced to do it. If he's responsive and obedient w/t, I'd leave it at that. At 3, he doesn't need to be worked more than 3 days a week, and it's only want one of those days in the round pen, if any. Preferably long straight lines. I like the ponying idea, if you've got an older horse you can lead from.
Ageed...^^^^^^...
I also advocate lots and lots of ground work on a long line,(think Buck Brannaman) and doing obstacles, like going over logs, over a teeter totter bridge, hanging pool noodles, backing through a "T".. walking on a tarp, over plastic water bottles, so much stuff to do and it makes em handy , broker, and a breeze to start under saddle.
All this stuff helps my older barrel horse as well... |
|
| |
Folks on-line