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> How Do You Teach a Horse to Stop/Stops

"I have a problem getting my horse to stop on her back feet rather than her front"

 
 

Dear Keith...

Saturday, August 18, 2007

I am training my horse for Team Penning. I seem to have a problem getting her to stop on her back feet rather than her front. Do you have any suggestions or article I could read to help me the is task? Also, it here any articles I could read to teach her how to cut? Rebecca G

 
 
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Suggested Articles

 

Suggested Article: "Riding Exercise: Steer the Tail"
All you have to do is keep changing directions – for twenty minutes. You can start this exercise at a walk and then at a trot when you feel comfortable.

"The more excited or nervous the horse is, the more important it is for you to not let...

from our Horse Riding Instruction series > read more

 
   

Suggested Article: "Steering Your Horse"
If you get too much of a slingshot action with the horse's head, where you pull it back and they give but immediately throw it forward, then you need to move your hands a little slower. Hold on longer, move slower to give back. Make them hold a...
from our Young Horse Training series > read more

 
   

Suggested Article: "Stop Your Horse With Hip Shoulder Shoulder"
The most common problem we see: Keeping your horse moving may prove to be your biggest challenge. Sluggish horses that look for any excuse to slow down will stop dead in their tracks when you first pick up a rein and ask for such a sharp maneuver....
from our Ask a Horse Trainer series > read more

 
   

Suggested Article: "Teach Neck Reining and more with the Clockwork Exercise"
This is called "The Clockwork Exercise" because you need to imagine four very large clocks, one underneath each of your horse's feet. When your horse moves any leg directly forward that leg is "stepping on twelve o'clock." When any leg moves...
from our Ask a Horse Trainer series > read more

 
   

Suggested Article: "Three Step Stop Exercise"
When you've mastered this exercise, the cool "upshot" is that if you're riding your horse, and his body is in the wrong position to pick up his lead, for instance, (maybe he's all "splayed out") then you can simply pick up the reins and drive him...
from our Ask a Horse Trainer series > read more

 
   
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