Ridecamp: Re: [RC] Jobs and Training - More info

Folks,

Based on email, some private, I realized I needed to clarify my note on
jobs and training with three additional points:

1.  We are fortunate to have our horses in a pastures where they can run
around,  usually on an 8 acre sloping pasture.
If horses are paddock boarded, then more riding, ponying, or hand walking
or if you are a runner, jogging in hand with them is needed.
2.  During the early years when  we are building a horse's base, we use a
combination of LSD (long slow distance) and mountain rides
but at a walk up steep climbs and/or easy trotting.
3.  Do save the horse on downhills  I do the following:
   -go much easier on downhill in training than in a ride most of the time
   (you do need to do some training)
   -teach the horse to really "get up under themselves" and go in a proper
   frame downhill - lots of seat)
   -walk or jog the horse in hand downhill, particularly on steep
   downhill's assuming your body can handle that
   (I will probably pay for that one of these years).  Note on this last
   one, Jeannie Waldron disagrees as she
   says the horses get too strung out.  I try to teach the horses how to
   use themselves so that they do not get
   strung out.  You do NOT want to be dragging the horse or pulling on his
   head in such a way that he is reaching
   out in front.  In fact the horse should be going down the hill as if
   your lead line was not in contact with him.
   [With some horses you can just turn them loose - my horse Drubin. With
   others you can do that and then meet them back at
   the barn if you are lucky - my wire's horse Strut  :-)]

BTW I realize that I was careless in my choice of works, "Jobs and
Training", I should have said "Jobs, Training, and Conditioning".
Training to me is teaching the horse the proper way to use its body, along
with manners, how to handle the trail, cross rivers, ....(mainly mental
stuff)
Conditioning is building up the physical capabilities of the horse.
Both conditioning and training are essential and go hand-in-hand.

Stagg Newman





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