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"What Not To Do When Your Horse Bucks Or Rears," from my FREE monthly newsletter
From the Quarter Horse Facts Series:
"You want to stop a buck, bolt or rear before it ever happens. You stop it before it happens by gaining control. You gain control by practicing exercises that give you finer control of the hindquarters, better back ups, stops or turns to the left or to the right. Every day keep expecting more and keep after your horse to improve. Work to a point where you know that if he "messes up," (he startles or jumps or bucks) that you will have built in enough control that it's now something you can handle.
Your job right now, today, is to start making sure that you have that control.
Begin seeing the exercises you do not as an end in themselves, but as tests. Can your horse stop exactly there at that rock or turn precisely at the second cone? It's not (you) knowing a lot of exercises that's important – it's having exact control over your horse's body parts throughout the exercises. If you're doing an exercise that calls for a halt at a certain point, and your horse misses by three steps, then it's telling you that you don't have the control you need of a certain body part. Practice until you can stop when and how you say. Passing that test is your proof that you have control – and that's what staying safe later (when things get hairy) is all about."
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A sample from Day 5:
"Get the idea? Fixing your horse will most likely take a sort of cocktail mix of applied concepts and exercises. It’ll also take thought, consistency and dedication, after all this is a living breathing animal we’re talking about. It’ll have its own ideas of how to spend the day. It’ll have good days and bad days. Read this article “Why Does My Horse Still Have This Problem?” It discusses the idea of being consistent in greater detail.
Fixing the bucking horse typically requires the use of five specific tools. In preceding segments we’ve covered methods to teach your horse to give to the bit (Day 3); we’ve connected the reins to the hip (Day 1 & 2), learned to “turn off his emotions” with the Head Down Cue (Day 4) and enhanced our ability to turn with the serpentine covered yesterday. This leaves one major tool to create today in the form of speed control.
Ever see a horse rocket backwards off a trailer? Know why they do that? Because they’ve been taught to get on but not off. Duh. Same goes for a horse that bucks when he lopes: We’ve been so set on “going faster to get into a lope” that we’ve simply jammed him into going forward without a thought to whether all that “jamming” didn’t cost us some loss of control. Like the horse that hasn’t been taught to unload, this horse didn’t get the “shut it back down” lesson. (If he had, you could shut him down the split second he humps his back and the incident would be a non-issue.)" - Print out from home
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