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Riding Skills: Training Advanced Maneuvers For Cowhorse

…to stop with voice—seat—reins, in a 1-2-3 second interval. My goal is that I never have to pull on the reins to make him stop hard—if I do, he braces on his front end and hollows out, making it impossible to get his hocks underneath him.

But before…

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Issues From The Saddle: Desensitizing To Speeding Vehicles/Cars

…move forward when he is backing in evasion, this requires a lot of rider skill. For one thing, most people instinctively and unknowingly pull back on the reins when a horse spooks or does something the rider doesn’t like (like back-up). Many horses have been programmed by the rider to…

Issues From The Saddle: Horse Won’t Turn When I Ask Him To

…will shut down their responsiveness when this happens. If you pull both reins to turn, particularly if your outside hand crosses over the midline of the neck when you turn, you are pulling his head in two different directions. When this happens the horse usually leans into the rein pressure…

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Canter Leads

…your outside leg, back about 6 inches (to bring his hips in and his outside leg underneath him), slightly lift your inside rein (to shift his and your weight to the outside and free-up his inside shoulder to take the lead.) and push with your seat in the canter motion….

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Riding Skills: Understanding Your Leg Aids

…the steering wheel. To control the horse’s entire body, the rider must be able to control the horse’s nose, the shoulder, the barrel and the hip. While the hands control the nose of the horse, the leg and rein aids work together to control the shoulder, barrel and hip.

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The Different Types Of Bits

…her frustrated rider move ahead with relaxation—and without a constant fight as the horse yanked the reins out of the rider’s hands. The show, featuring Julianne and her horse “Cherokee,” was named in part because Cherokee took any bit pressure as a cue to turn her head and move into…

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Disengagement

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The one-rein stop is an example of how you might disengage a horse from the saddle. Horses actually stop better off one rein than two, because when you pull on two reins to stop, the horse braces his neck, leans…

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Connecting Reins To The Bit

A Bit of Comfort

“When connecting reins to the bit, I prefer to use a leather to leather connection for softness and a better feel. While having metal snaps in the ends of your reins is convenient for changing reins and repositioning your reins, the