The art of breaking a horse, really just depends on the horse and rider. Before you ever ride, or tack up your horse, you always have to know if the horse is ready, willing, and responsive to you on the ground, then you can start. If he or she is not willing or responsive to you when you are on the ground, he or she will not respect you when you are riding. Make sure the horse knows the terms walk, trot, canter, and whoa, or any terms you use in replace of walk, trot, or woah, it will be a lot easier for you, and the horse will understand more. To make sure your horse is responsive to you on the ground is to make sure you spend a lot of time with your horse. Examples of what you should do is to groom your horse every day, walk him or her around, pet him, feed him, and just take care of your horse as much as possible.
A thing you always have to train your horse with is to be patient, get a halter on them and tie them on a post, make sure the horse can get free if they pull, or have a quick release latch. I say this because if your horse is totally tied up to a wooden post that’s only stuck in the ground, no matter how far in, or how sturdy it is, if your horse gets spooked, it will, pull the post out of the ground because if he pulls, and it won’t release, they will pull and pull as hard as they can until they feel no pressure, then they will stop, and calm themselves down. When you tie a horse, don’t just leave them there, but do hands on things, brush them, talk to them, pet them, pick their front and back hooves, and get them used to people going behind them and touching their rump and playing with their tail, patting their rump, back, side, etc., you never know when someone will do that and they’re not used to it. Then...
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...ght behind his front legs. The horses tend to get spooked and try to pull back, move, try and run away, rear up, buck, or all of the above. Just let the horse relax when he’s finished. And do that every day so he can get used to it. When the horse is used to everything getting on, and getting tightened, you can start lunging him with the saddle on. Walk, trot, canter, and whoa for stopping, or whatever your vocal commands are, use them.
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Once you get them to settle down and get there mind focused on just walking and the rider then you know the bond with the rider and horse are strong. When it is time for the second run of the night you want to warm them up again but not as hard this time because he or she has already been warmed up once before this, so just a little warming up won’t hurt. When it is that time for the second run the rider will bring the horse him a set him or her up for their first barrel and make the most of the race. If you see the rider smiling then everyone knows she has done her job with this horse. The rider can make an automatic barrel horse where that horse know his job and she barely has to ask the horse for a turn or touch his face to go around that barrel. When the rider gets a horse to be like that everyone can tell they spent hours and days together. The rider worked with that horse but never made him sour or hate coming into the arena. They spent time working on flexing the horse and making sure he knew when to tuck his nose and leave it for an extra second. They will all see when they are running home how much they spend time they spend together if they are fast and smooth through the pattern and don’t have any blow ups before or after coming in and out of the arena. After the race is over and the announcer say who
In the beginning of the summer, the pony would not move at all or go really slow when asking him to run the barrel pattern. After many attempts of trying to get the pony to walk with me on top of him, he finally started to get more confidence and knew that I would not let him run into anything while on him. During training, the pony knew the arena well enough so he would not bump into anything. After building up speed and getting better times, I thought that we were back in barrel racing. I entered the pony and I in the minnesota rodeo.
I tried leading this horse to water. He refused to drink. This new-found compassion to lead, to rectify, has lifted my soul halfway out of the hostile, rancorous dark New York mire. The remaining half of my soul is being held back by the stubborn horses whose reins I'm holding onto. They refuse to join me, to whinny and trot along the green meadows of tolerance. They keep bucking. But letting go will only pull me back in.
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When working you build muscles, but over working can cause strain and pain. The large muscles of the back and hind quarters are used mostly among performance horses. They can strain their muscles if they are asked to work too hard for too long. Most muscles strains are mild and the amount of damage is small. But it is a very common injury and can stop the horse from preforming to his best. A jumping horse may also experience sore muscles due to being put into draw reins for too long and not being able to stretch out his neck and back properly.
Young, Rhoria Lee, and Maggie Bracher. "Horsemastership part 2: Physical, psychological, educational and social benefits." International Journal of Therapy & Rehabilitation 12.3 (2005): 120-125. Web. 8 Mar. 2011.
There seem to be an immeasurable amount of ways to use all our aids when riding a horse. Each way eliciting a different response from our horse if used correctly. One of our important aids is our voice as it can be quiet an effective and useful tool in riding and training the horse. Many horses are trained to transition through gaits with the use of verbal commands such as whoa, trot, or canter. As Smith Lilly states in his book Saddle Seat Horsemanship, "we can use tone of voice to influence the horse. Soothing tones and drawing out the words ("waaaalk") have a calming effect, while sharer tones used harshly ("COMEUPHERE!") sharpen the horse's attention and can be used as a mild punishment" (Smith 88). However, it is important that each verbal cue is followed if not respected as it is easy for the horses to become untrained in verbal cues.
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