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More Early Lessons For The Green Horse |
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Every time you work with your green horse, remind yourself that there's not just 'one way' things should happen when the two of you meet in an enclosed area the first few times. Every horse is going to react to your presence and the following pressures you use to begin your relationship a different way. It's your job to be observant of all of the body language the horse uses to tell you how he feels, what his emotional state is, so you can keep these first lessons as relaxed and rhythmic as possible. 
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By Faith Meredith |
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Green Horse Lessons: Adding The Lead Rope |
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I've taken my baby green horse from knowing nothing about people or interacting with them up to the point where our pattern of interaction creates a feels in him that I'm safe to be with. Our pattern of interaction has shown him that I am not threatening and that I work in a horse-logical, rhythmic and relaxed way that allows him to be rhythmic and relaxed.
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By Faith Meredith |
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Bulging Out and Falling In |
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As horses move up the training tree and riders move up the riding tree, one of the early skills that both must master is balance. Both must develop the correct muscles in order to carry themselves in balance and both must learn to maintain their own balance regardless of what their partner does. Until that happens, each will find balance issues a recurring theme as they progress through the various levels of their respective learning trees.
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By Faith Meredith |
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Bucking, Shying and other Attention Deficit Disorders |
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There may be a few enthusiastic riders out there who looking forward to the challenge of riding their horse through a fit of bucking or shying when they mount up. Most of us, however, would prefer that our horses never did either one while we are on their backs.
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By Faith Meredith |
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Fixing Bit Evasions |
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Horses evade the bit when they are uncomfortable in their mouths. That can happen for a number of reasons. The most common one is that the rider has unsteady hands. The rider's hands may be seesawing or pulling or constantly bumping the horse's mouth and the horse looks for a way to get away from the annoyance. The bit may be too thick or too wide for that horse's mouth or the horse may have a dental problem.
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By Faith Meredith |
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A Good Start Avoids Bit Evasions |
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When a horse learns to evade the bit by going above it or behind it, that bad habit can be hard to correct and almost impossible to completely eradicate. A good trainer can reschool a horse so that it goes comfortably in the bit again but as soon as a rider with poor or even average skills mounts up, the horse just naturally reverts to its old habit as a way of coping with a rider whose hands may not be perfectly steady.
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By Faith Meredith |
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Early Lessons For The Green Horse |
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There's no precise 'training recipe' you can follow that works the same for every horse and every handler every time. That's because people and horses have different personalities and what works for one is the wrong approach for another. And from day to day they're different, too. You need to understand the goals and the sorts of things you can do to reach those goals.
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By Ron Meredith |
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First Lessons |
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One of the reasons it's so hard to write about training horses is that everyone wants a recipe. Do this, then that, then this other thing. Use such and such equipment, do so and so exercises a certain number of times. Follow the right steps and you're guaranteed a trained horse.
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By Ron Meredith |
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