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 The best bad guy on the internet
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Location: Arizona | lonely va barrelxr - 2019-03-29 1:09 PM
Southtxponygirl - 2019-03-29 2:37 PM
wyoming barrel racer - 2019-03-29 1:24 PM
LIVE2RUN - 2019-03-28 3:21 PM
Wow this really blows my mind. Do you see endurance riders loping their horses 100 miles?? NO! They trot, long trot! I can't believe someone would say that trotting is bad for the horse, good grief!!  
Exactly! Just see how winded and sore your horse is if you lope all day long on the ranch gathering cattle. My show horse is the only horse I have ever had that is back/body sore and we and my vets contribute it to so many other factors.
I don't think there is a real right or wrong, because a lot of the barrel racers etc that this works for, don't get out of the arena and a 20 minute ride is a normal outing. So they may not need to trot. But if you are horseback for 4-8 hrs. They better be trotting or they will be so sore and tired not to mention what it will do to the lungs.
I will compare it to feeding grass hay or alfalfa hay. No real right or wrong. Depends on the individual horse and what it needs.
All this ^^^^ When you are moving cattle or going from point A to point B you need to do alot of trotting, not the flat footed jaw jarring trot but the long/extented trot, theres a big difference between the flat footed trot and the extented long trot, I can see just trotting can mess with joints for a long period of time.. when I move out on a horse I do alot of posting.. I have see people just sit a trotting horse and it just hurts to watch them beat the crap out of their horses back..
My knees are on their last few years by now so I 2 point instead of posting. For some reason they don't hurt as bad if I hold the up position over the posting move. But yes, long trot makes you do one or the other, imo. I'm sure there are a few riders able to sit a real long trot but I never have, even when I was young and invicible.
Agreed with all of you!! I used to compete in endurance riding...we covered a lot of ground in a short amount of time. I'm not talking about dirt roads, more like mountains, washes, rocky trails. Horses can handle a lot of different terrains if they are trained too. We did all of this at a long fast trot. Best conditioning ever. | |
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Location: Wonderful Wyoming | LIVE2RUN - 2019-03-29 2:33 PM
lonely va barrelxr - 2019-03-29 1:09 PM
Southtxponygirl - 2019-03-29 2:37 PM
wyoming barrel racer - 2019-03-29 1:24 PM
LIVE2RUN - 2019-03-28 3:21 PM
Wow this really blows my mind. Do you see endurance riders loping their horses 100 miles?? NO! They trot, long trot! I can't believe someone would say that trotting is bad for the horse, good grief!!
Exactly! Just see how winded and sore your horse is if you lope all day long on the ranch gathering cattle. My show horse is the only horse I have ever had that is back/body sore and we and my vets contribute it to so many other factors.
I don't think there is a real right or wrong, because a lot of the barrel racers etc that this works for, don't get out of the arena and a 20 minute ride is a normal outing. So they may not need to trot. But if you are horseback for 4-8 hrs. They better be trotting or they will be so sore and tired not to mention what it will do to the lungs.
I will compare it to feeding grass hay or alfalfa hay. No real right or wrong. Depends on the individual horse and what it needs.
All this ^^^^ When you are moving cattle or going from point A to point B you need to do alot of trotting, not the flat footed jaw jarring trot but the long/extented trot, theres a big difference between the flat footed trot and the extented long trot, I can see just trotting can mess with joints for a long period of time.. when I move out on a horse I do alot of posting.. I have see people just sit a trotting horse and it just hurts to watch them beat the crap out of their horses back..
My knees are on their last few years by now so I 2 point instead of posting. For some reason they don't hurt as bad if I hold the up position over the posting move. But yes, long trot makes you do one or the other, imo. I'm sure there are a few riders able to sit a real long trot but I never have, even when I was young and invicible.
Agreed with all of you!! I used to compete in endurance riding...we covered a lot of ground in a short amount of time. I'm not talking about dirt roads, more like mountains, washes, rocky trails. Horses can handle a lot of different terrains if they are trained too. We did all of this at a long fast trot. Best conditioning ever.
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Location: Bastrop, Texas | I don’t know if I can explain this very well, but I’ll give it a try. I think there’s a right way to long trot and a wrong way. You still need to maintain collection. if your horse is long trotting and throwing his hocks out behind him too far without reaching up and under himself, that’s not what you want. You still want to keep them lifted up and keep them from rooting into the bit. I hope this makes sense. Maybe someone else can explain better. | |
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Location: North of where I want to be | In my dressage traing we were taught 2 point, then post and when your hourse was muscled and conditioned properly then sitting trot as it is stress full. I was also taught to sit the trot correctly. Not flop around like a bag of hammers up there which is what some people do fo whatever reason. | |
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