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| jake16 - 2017-03-17 7:15 AM
want2chase3 - 2017-03-17 8:08 AM
Yes, I'm planning on sitting her down and having a talk... she's going again today and tomorrow to ride with him. He's doing these lessons out of the kindness of his heart and she helps out around the barn, feeding, watering, mucking stalls etc etc.. the horse is staying with him for another month and I'm hoping she can go over on the weekends and continue to work with him. I need to get the commitment from her though if we are going to continue
Good idea: )you are on top of it : ) I would love to see a video of the colt if you get one: ) ) )
Thank you. I'm hoping I can get over there today and get a video! I want to video her too so she can see herself. That may help with the hand business. |
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Location: OH. IO | That's a great idea!!! |
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Location: OH. IO | How's everything going? |
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Location: OH. IO | How's it going for you ???? |
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| The horse is still at the trainers.. we decided another 30 rides on him. He should be coming home within the next week or so. He's doing awesome! Our trainer fell in love with him. We've has multiple offers on him lol! We are going to bring him home and she will start to pattern him lightly and I will be hauling him and her to the trainers for lessons weekly to keep him sharp. |
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Location: OH. IO | want2chase3 - 2017-05-01 10:24 AM
The horse is still at the trainers.. we decided another 30 rides on him. He should be coming home within the next week or so. He's doing awesome! Our trainer fell in love with him. We've has multiple offers on him lol! We are going to bring him home and she will start to pattern him lightly and I will be hauling him and her to the trainers for lessons weekly to keep him sharp.
That's AWESOME news!!!! Thanks for the update!!!!! |
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| We went and picked him up yesterday! I cannot believe it's the same horse, he's grown so much. |
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| He looks amazing too!
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Location: OH. IO | WOW HE LOOKS FANTASTIC!!!!SO GLAD YOU WENT THROUGH WITH HIM!!! |
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| jake16 - 2017-05-06 11:21 AM
WOW HE LOOKS FANTASTIC!!!!SO GLAD YOU WENT THROUGH WITH HIM!!!
Thanks! She's going to ride him today for the first time since he left. Still planning on taking her over once a week for lessons on him. |
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Location: W. Pa. | Don't give up on his colt. If he were 10 and acting this way it would be one thing but he is a colt. Be sure you are using the correct trainer.
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Location: Arkansas | want2chase3 - 2017-05-06 8:54 AM
He looks amazing too!
Wow!!! I am so glad for you and her and him. He looks great! Best of luck |
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| Two Boots - 2017-05-06 9:32 PM
Don't give up on his colt. If he were 10 and acting this way it would be one thing but he is a colt. Be sure you are using the correct trainer.
He spent 3 months with our trainer, the best in this area. Judging on how she rode him yesterday, they clicked right away and she was happily loping circles in the pasture! I don't think she quit smiling the whole time. |
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| Chandler's Mom - 2017-05-06 9:49 PM
want2chase3 - 2017-05-06 8:54 AM
He looks amazing too!
Wow!!! I am so glad for you and her and him. He looks great! Best of luck
Thank you! We are super excited! Our trainer asked to have first right to purchase if we decided to ever sell. I was going to switch him to a different feed when I brought him home, but seeing how good he looks on his current feed I'm sticking with it, in fact, I'm putting the rest of my crew on the same! He maintained beautifully on it and he was ridden/worked 6 days a week. |
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Location: North Central Iowa Land of white frozen grass | The absolute best thing you can do is video tape her on her horse. She is only 12. When it comes to her hands, what she thinks she is doing and what she see's she is doing in the video's will help her alot. Don't say a word when you watch the video's. Let her discribe it first and then explain what you think she is doing. When my daughter's started out on poles and barrels I would video them and let them watch themselves. I could tell them what they were doing til i was blue in the face and they would not believe me until they seen it them selves. Then I would say just try this and we will video it and compare to the other runs. Remeber your daughter is just 12 and she is learning also. Please don't sell the horse or your daughter short. Give them time. They are both learning a lot right now. The better they both do the more she will fall in love with it. My oldest daughter would cry coming home from a show because she was not as good as the older girls and she thought she would never be as good as them and their horses. I told her that every rider in that arena no matter how old they were started in the same spot she was in. The only difference is they did not give up. |
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| BS Hauler - 2017-05-07 12:56 PM
The absolute best thing you can do is video tape her on her horse. She is only 12. When it comes to her hands, what she thinks she is doing and what she see's she is doing in the video's will help her alot. Don't say a word when you watch the video's. Let her discribe it first and then explain what you think she is doing. When my daughter's started out on poles and barrels I would video them and let them watch themselves. I could tell them what they were doing til i was blue in the face and they would not believe me until they seen it them selves. Then I would say just try this and we will video it and compare to the other runs. Remeber your daughter is just 12 and she is learning also. Please don't sell the horse or your daughter short. Give them time. They are both learning a lot right now. The better they both do the more she will fall in love with it. My oldest daughter would cry coming home from a show because she was not as good as the older girls and she thought she would never be as good as them and their horses. I told her that every rider in that arena no matter how old they were started in the same spot she was in. The only difference is they did not give up.
I agree 100% I took a video of her riding him yesterday and she's watched it over and over.. she needs to learn his fancy buttons.. he's got an incredible stop on him so when she sat and asked for the stop he almost juked her out of the saddle lol! She's going next Saturday with the horse to the trainer for a lesson on him. Right now he just wants her to lope circles and get the feel of him, he's still young and needs lots of guidance from his jockey! |
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Location: North Central Iowa Land of white frozen grass | Your daughter just learned what the difference is between being a pasture friend and being a rider and a horse partner is. Before the horse just treated her like a friend and now he has learned she is the rider, the boss and the trainer. Now she needs to learn how to communicate with him thru body languages. And keep telling her to not get discouraged. Everyone in that arena no matter how old they are started out just like her. My one daughter would not enter the open barrels because she said that there was not way she could compete with those older ladies. One of the older ladies over heard her and chewed her out and told her too never let that stop her from entering. She told her that any of them could hit a barrel and could lose to her if she just ran a clean run even if she was a couple seconds slower. This is a mental game as much as a fisical one and these younger girls need all the encouragement they can get. I treated my daughters no different than my son on the farm. |
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| I took a bunch of videos of her yesterday on him so she could see what she's doing with her hands... she needs to learn to ride a bit quieter, but I think she's doing a great job so far putting the miles on him, the lessons will help her a lot. |
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Location: Roping pen | I just read the first page and the last one. Glad it worked out.
HOPEFULLY, someone mentioned that the colt was just being cinchie. Not a deal breaker, just takes some time.
We had one several years ago, the first 60 rides were bareback. Would buck as hard as I have ever seen in 50 years, if you saddled him. Started with just a horse blanket, that we left on and slowly, (ever few days) we would tighten the belly strap a little. Moved to a bareback pad, than a light saddle and we left them on a day at a time. Took a good month to get him over being cinchie. Bareback, he was a push over. Only colt hat we ever got to one hand with a halter riding bareback before we could saddle him.
Maybe this was the answer? |
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Location: North Central Iowa Land of white frozen grass | The video's will help her alot. She will be more consensus of this as she rides. Tell to try and do as much as she can with as little hand movement as she can. Clean is elegant and smooth is fast. Ask her how she would react to someone pulling hard on her mouth or someone pulling very sulterally if the bit was in her mouth. Keep the encouragement up. I would tell my daughters what I thought that they could improve on in training sessions. But when it came to making their runs at events I always told them to just go have fun. They don't need more pressure from a parent at that point before a run. |
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