Post by Elaine on Nov 1, 2007 10:23:51 GMT
My horse leans / is heavy in the hand...
Not an uncommon issue.........
Firstly, you may have tried the flash noseband, bigger bit, more reins and leather approach, pulling, sawing on horses mouth, etc but none of that is very nice for your horse. There's often a way to fix things where you can work with the horse, rather than making things sore and uncomfortable for your horse.
Remember, light soft hands that DON'T PULL ALL THE TIME are 'that one thing' that Curly spoke of in City Slickers, and 'the holy grail' that was spoken of in the Da Vinci Code (or the equine equivilent anyway!!)
Great horse riders and trainers respect their horse's mouth and treat it accordingly.
Horses weren't put on the earth for their mouths to be pulled off them.
This is an issue that works well when you sort it out first when you're standing on the ground.
When its perfect there, then I'd hop into the saddle and you'll find its much better too.
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OK, so maybe so far you've been advised to put on a flash, use a stronger contact, use more outside rein, carry a whip, and do thousands of transitions.
1. A flash is not fixing the problem It just masks it. Take off the flash the issue is still there.
2. Using outside rein and leg on turns will cause your horse to bend completely the wrong way around a circle. THe way to ride a circle properly is with inside hand for bend in neck towards inside, and inside leg asking horse to push ribs to outside, cretaing bend through body, a bend which keep 4 legs under horse so he can balance, and which matches the bend fo the circle.
3. To fix this horse you don't need either stronger contact (you both pulling enough already), or definitely (he's already rushing!!) a whip. You'll end up with a horse with a hard(er) mouth whose going too fast who you're making go faster with a whip.
4. Thousands of transitions might help a bit, but there's simpler and easier ways to do things which you'll both enjoy a little more.
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OK, so first off we did to do a spot of performance groundwork........
Click on this link for details
irishnhsociety.proboards41.com/index.cgi?board=usefulinformation&action=display&thread=1191926143
Best of luck ;D
Remember, the reins are not things for pulling on. They are subtle communication tools.
Not an uncommon issue.........
Firstly, you may have tried the flash noseband, bigger bit, more reins and leather approach, pulling, sawing on horses mouth, etc but none of that is very nice for your horse. There's often a way to fix things where you can work with the horse, rather than making things sore and uncomfortable for your horse.
Remember, light soft hands that DON'T PULL ALL THE TIME are 'that one thing' that Curly spoke of in City Slickers, and 'the holy grail' that was spoken of in the Da Vinci Code (or the equine equivilent anyway!!)
Great horse riders and trainers respect their horse's mouth and treat it accordingly.Horses weren't put on the earth for their mouths to be pulled off them.
This is an issue that works well when you sort it out first when you're standing on the ground.
When its perfect there, then I'd hop into the saddle and you'll find its much better too.
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
OK, so maybe so far you've been advised to put on a flash, use a stronger contact, use more outside rein, carry a whip, and do thousands of transitions.
1. A flash is not fixing the problem It just masks it. Take off the flash the issue is still there.
2. Using outside rein and leg on turns will cause your horse to bend completely the wrong way around a circle. THe way to ride a circle properly is with inside hand for bend in neck towards inside, and inside leg asking horse to push ribs to outside, cretaing bend through body, a bend which keep 4 legs under horse so he can balance, and which matches the bend fo the circle.
3. To fix this horse you don't need either stronger contact (you both pulling enough already), or definitely (he's already rushing!!) a whip. You'll end up with a horse with a hard(er) mouth whose going too fast who you're making go faster with a whip.
4. Thousands of transitions might help a bit, but there's simpler and easier ways to do things which you'll both enjoy a little more.
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
OK, so first off we did to do a spot of performance groundwork........
Click on this link for details
irishnhsociety.proboards41.com/index.cgi?board=usefulinformation&action=display&thread=1191926143
Best of luck
;DRemember, the reins are not things for pulling on. They are subtle communication tools.