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"I have several 2yr olds I am getting ready to start"
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Dear Keith...
Tuesday, February 28, 2006
I have several 2yr olds I am getting ready to start breaking and I am trying to find the best ways that you all use to get them to give to the new feeling of the bits and how the best ways to get these young ones to ride easier at the beginning of training and etc.
Thanks
Joe |
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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 |
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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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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 |
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Suggested Article: "The First Thing I Do"
If your horse went ballistic out on the trail last week... it didn't "just happen out of the blue." He's been telling you for weeks or months that he was going to lose it when enough pressure was applied every time he resisted (however slightly)...
from our Starting a Young Horse series > read more |
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Suggested Article: "An Easy Way to Look At Training"
Use training exercises to let a little pressure leak here and there, redirecting that energy to your advantage. For example, in our Hip-Shoulder-Shoulder exercise we begin by walking forward, then pick up a rein and ask one shoulder to stop while...
from our Horse Training Basics series > read more |
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