I had two great lessons on Roderick and Kimmi with David Dobson last week, thanks to Cavalli Park for organising and facilitating (thank goodness for an indoor). We then went showjumping at Tonimbuk freshman’s for their first outing of the new season, Kevin came along as well, they all jumped super and extra important behaved very well. Thanks mum for helping yesterday and I’m looking forward to the next 3 weekends with FOW HT, Boneo SJ and then Spring HT. Roderick has recently started on some BetaVet products to help with his guts and nervous system both of which are very delicate, he has been feeling and going great so I’m excited to see how we continue.
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~Training/teaching young horses and green horses~
First things first- I don’t believe in fitting horses to our mould as a rider, it is a two way street and must be a give and a take. We can and should as riders however know what attributes we like in a horse/ work well with us and if it’s not working it doesn’t mean anything is bad about the horse or that it isn’t a good horse it’s just not our kind of horse. In this case we can do two things
-adapt and try a new technique/view point
Or
-know that we don’t work together well, I’m not going to enjoy riding this horse, I am losing confidence and there for not giving this horse what it needs
We must also remember that they are a herd animal, and either you are the boss or they are which brings me to starting them jumping for Eventing.
My #1 rule is, they must jump what I put in front of them. Yes they can ask questions, do I have to (always a big one ha)?, will it hurt me`?, is it danger ?but when you give them an answer of no it’s fine you can jump it, that is what they must do. This is a long process that is built on TRUST. Fear can make them jump the fence too, but fear to a horse is panicked and irrational and they aren’t going to learn much out of jumping from fear. Please remember this is my take on training my young horses and just like horses everyone is different and has a different method that works for them 💚💚
This is my just turned 5yo Kevin (Mighty Magic/For Pleasure…. 3 way cross to Hereldik xx and 2 way cross to For Pleasure). I got Kevin as a 6month old and despite not being the easiest of young horses from about 6months to 3.5, he is really starting to “get it”. Don’t get me wrong it’s definitely in his own way but I think it’s important to remember that’s how it is.
This was Kevs first time on the truck, first time since being under saddle off the property and first time on a cross country course. It was a lot and I didn’t go with the expectation of jumpi