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Location: SW MO | Hey BBs- please critique me and my 4 year old mare. She is green but I have been working on teaching her to collect into the bridle and soften her rib cage. Any tips? Thank you!
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Location: WYOMING | Overall for one video I like what I see. If anything I didn't like how you were trying to keep her line going to #1. You were having to keep adjusting her on the approach with your inside rein.
This can lead your mare into leaning into that pressure and approach even more which I see a lot of green horses do (especially when speed is added). When this happens once you get to your barrel you are usually forced to move your hand across her neck to keep her over which is never a good idea. Too much inside rein, not enough outside rein. Snowball effect to messing up the first turn.
I would work on that line so that she knows exactly where to go with confidence and not much handling. Save any handling that may be needed to help your turn.
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Location: Claremore, OK | I think you’ve done a great job and she has a really nice start. Paul Humphrey has several different drills doing collected circles around the barrel in different sizes that will help. That’s will
Help her learn to drive with her hind end and also develop the strength she needs to help her drive thru the turns. |
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Location: SW MO | Liana D - 2018-10-19 12:57 PM
I think you’ve done a great job and she has a really nice start. Paul Humphrey has several different drills doing collected circles around the barrel in different sizes that will help. That’s will
Help her learn to drive with her hind end and also develop the strength she needs to help her drive thru the turns.
Thank you!! I definitely plan on taking a break from going around the barrels until I have a lot more control and collection in a circle in our dry work. I felt like she was losing her drive on the back sides, so I am going to try to fix that away from the pattern and come back later. Love Pauls videos! |
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Location: North Dakota | Very nice start, and I like how she was working hard for you. But at that speed, I would definately like to see her a bit more collection and "in the bridle".
That may help you, since she crossfired in the hind leaving the first and stayed that way halfway across the pen (or you could say she didn't switch in front .... however you want to look at it). For the young ones, it's almost nice to do an "over finish" on the first barrel because that keeps them on the correct lead throughout the whole turn, yet it shows them how to swap to the new lead once they are finished.
Around the second, she's not using her hind end the greatest. Either she's sore and hopping, or she just doesn't know what to do back there yet. (to really drive that inside hind)
And same with the third.
Do you have a reining trainer near you that you can take lessons with? I've found that greatly helps me teach my horses to give to the bit, soften, and drive from behind.
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Location: SW MO | geronabean - 2018-10-19 11:54 AM
Overall for one video I like what I see. If anything I didn't like how you were trying to keep her line going to #1. You were having to keep adjusting her on the approach with your inside rein.
This can lead your mare into leaning into that pressure and approach even more which I see a lot of green horses do (especially when speed is added). When this happens once you get to your barrel you are usually forced to move your hand across her neck to keep her over which is never a good idea. Too much inside rein, not enough outside rein. Snowball effect to messing up the first turn.
I would work on that line so that she knows exactly where to go with confidence and not much handling. Save any handling that may be needed to help your turn.
Yes, I really felt like I was asking her with my inside leg to give me more room but it was a struggle and she wanted to fade in. Thank you I will work on that next time I go to the pattern.  |
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Location: SW MO | r_beau - 2018-10-19 1:31 PM
Very nice start, and I like how she was working hard for you. But at that speed, I would definately like to see her a bit more collection and "in the bridle".
That may help you, since she crossfired in the hind leaving the first and stayed that way halfway across the pen (or you could say she didn't switch in front .... however you want to look at it). For the young ones, it's almost nice to do an "over finish" on the first barrel because that keeps them on the correct lead throughout the whole turn, yet it shows them how to swap to the new lead once they are finished.
Around the second, she's not using her hind end the greatest. Either she's sore and hopping, or she just doesn't know what to do back there yet. (to really drive that inside hind)
And same with the third.
Do you have a reining trainer near you that you can take lessons with? I've found that greatly helps me teach my horses to give to the bit, soften, and drive from behind.
Not that I know of- I will definitely look into it. I have a couple of other videos where she used her hind end a little more on 2&3. She has not done anything yet to make me think she was sore but I have been keeping an eye on her. She was pretty tired mentally by the time we go to this video that I posted. I just felt like it was her best work.
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