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What I've found really helpful in teaching my horses different speeds of the gaits is volunteering to show people the trails in the area.  Cypress is pretty close to Houston and growing all the time, but we have miles of trails along Cypress Creek and lots of people moving out here that just have to get a horse.  Our groups can range from 2 - 15 with the skill range going from rank beginner to experienced show/green trail to experienced trail riders.  Whatever the group, I make a point to stay with the greenest person so that my horse can be the calming influence.  Scarlet has learned to let horses take off away from her while she does a slow trot with the greenies horses bumping her from behind as we keep the green rider from getting too scared at going fast.  I swear, Scarlet's trot now has about 10 different variations of speed and she's comfortable at all of them and she's learned how to walk as well.  It's good training. :o)

 

Rae

Tall C Arabians - central region

Becky Rohwer <rj7647@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > JMHO, but endurance horses have their "lower gears" greatly neglected
> for
> > the most part, and that is one of the big reasons why they get out of
> > control at starts, etc.
>
> Boy Howdy! I took my mare on a BCH ride a few weeks back. She jigged for
> 3 hours. So ingrained is the trot, trot, trot, that when I asked her to
> walk with a group of horses she just couldn't get it into her head that this
> was just a walk along ride. She was collected up tight as a coiled spring
> and just waiting for me to give her the go sign. I was very embarrased as I
> could just hear all the quarter horse people snickering about the
> craaazzzzyyy aaarrrraaaab.
>
> I am getting ready to take a 5 day pack trip into the Bob Marshall
> wilderness with my craaazzzzyyy aaarrrraaaab this coming weekend. She will
> be trailering up with other horses, so am hoping she will
>  bond to her
> trailer mates and will be more willing to walk along. Otherwise I told the
> pack leader that I would be at camp about 3 1/2 hours before them. :-)
>
> On the funny side, this is an educational trip. Some experienced packers
> taking greenhorns, me being one of them, into the wilderness to teach
> packing and light on the land techniques. Smoke, the guide, said he would
> try to find peoples strenghts and build on them. He saw me posting the trot
> at the afore mentioned ride. During our organizing meeting for the pack
> trip he pointed to me and told the group "she knows how to post the trot".
> "That's a good thing to know if you need to go after horses that have
> wandered away from camp and you need to catch up to them." So I was told I
> might be giving a demo on trotting. Guess us endurance riders and
> craaazzzzyyy aaarrrraaaabs are good for something.
>
> Becky R. -
>  Montana
>
>
>
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