The repetition trap in horse training
A small spook that is well-handled and doesn’t diminish their confidence goes into the “win” category. They have to experience life eventually, may as well start in the first ride. I trust my groundwork.
Pick it up, old man Shining N Stylish 💪💪🤙🤠
Franklin Champ Show 2024 - first show of the season for us!
First outing of the year! Kobe has a lot on his plate this year including Reining, Ranch Riding, Western Riding, Cowboy Challenge and possibly… a bit more… 🤷♀️🤠 He just keeps rising up to everything we ask. Good boy Kobe.
Rose and Timmy from Nelson might just be the most improved. Cheers for including me in your journey - you’re both stars and such fun personalities to work with 🤠🙌xx
Wild rags are great for keeping that summer sun off your neck and chest, even pull it up over your nose and mouth to keep dust out. They’re not just for showing in!
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2022 winter clinic series recap. Spring is just around the corner and I’m still making a few more trips to Dunedin to work with Otago WRC this year. What a warm group of people in a cold part of NZ 🥰
This is Buckwheat ride 1 and again at 90 days under saddle.
Consistent training tends to work best for young performance horses.
If you’re always stopping then starting back up, you’ll find you will most likely be covering the same material again and again. Also, work ethic and maturity may not develop well in such a program, specifically with performance horses because of the power/drive that is bred into them.
That doesn’t mean no time off. It just means two rides per week barely keeps up the status quo. It is better to do concentrated periods of training with a green horse, not one ride every few days.
In my experience, the first six months of riding is a crucial time and you need to be prepared to devote your efforts to being out, training your horse.
You’ll hit ceilings, and if you have the tools, you’ll bust through those ceilings to the rewards beyond.
Some horses mentally mature very rapidly, some slowly.
A docile horse isn’t necessarily a horse who is ready to give himself to the rider. A horse can be quite calm and still not let you be its leader. In most cases I have seen, the more self-assured the horse, the less likely they are to rely on you, to look to you for leadership.
I like to establish leadership before riding a youngster, so that they are humble and very certain I won’t lead them into danger.
Your foundation must include conditioning that horse to handle mental pressure.
A horse that trusts you to put pressure on them, that trusts you to lead them through the uncomfortable parts of training, that horse has given himself to you and will usually give you everything they can. - kk
How do you get that magic balance of a green horse who has great work ethic AND relaxation? And what are the most important issues to address while young? Working on some young horse education opportunities for my friends in the Waikato and surrounds 👏👏👏
Clinic vibes - moving and shaking the western performance world. Big improvements coming from our western riding clubs in New Zealand! Nothing is more exciting than making people into horse trainers and horsemen!!!
Shining N Stylish Western Riding - Open Horse at 2023 NZ Quarter Horse Nationals.
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Shining N Stylish off to another Cowboy Challenge this weekend! So long Kobe!
