Dino learns to bow after a few sessions with halter, rope, cue stick and of course lots of treats. Dino surprises us all by deciding to lay down when asked to bow from the off side. Fortunately Charlie had camera in hand for this fun horse bowing/laying moment!
If you have a horse that motors into a gallop everytime you ask for a canter while riding or on the lunge line then you might want to start from square one back in the round pen. Most of our problems with horses can be attributed to “Us asking but the horse isn’t listening” or “Us asking and the horse not understanding”. Both of these scenarios can be solved with the proper building blocks of basic training practices and good riding.
How we ride our horses, and our level of commitment to being better riders, can eliminate many common behavioral problems in a horse. Good riding helps a horse to develop physically and mentally so he becomes a wonderful riding companion and a talented performer.
What do you do when your horse dodges away from you while trying to mount? There are several possible reasons why this happens. In this post I address what some of those reasons may be and provide one way to counter this misbehavior in a horse as well as shed light on some other reasons your horse may be doing this.
So what’s with bits these days? Back in my pony clubbing days in upstate NY we had the snaffle. When you got to more advanced work in dressage there was the double bridle and if four reins were just a little too tough to handle, you could always cheat and use a Pelham bit with a “rounding” to join the curb and snaffle reins into one, thus giving you only two reins to work with.
