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[RC] Always wants to be in front - k s swigart


Tiffany said:


I have been riding this horse for 10 years.
?We don't have many groups to ride with, but
?she always wants to be in the front.

?
In my experience, the best way to teach horses such as these (which, oddly 
enough, I find more commonly than presumably Bruce Weary does who says he has 
more horses that like to follow) that they don't always have to/get to be in 
front is to teach them "wait, and you will get your turn."
?
The lesson works best if you have about 3-4 people/horses to do the schooling 
session together, and each horse gets a turn at being in front...for not very 
long.? 
?
You can do it by playing leap frog with the horses in a line along the trail 
where the person in the back pulls off to the side, rides faster past all the 
other horses until it is front, is rated back to the same speed, and is put to 
the original side in front of the line of horse and then the exercise is 
repeated with the new horse at the back being taken past the line and slowed 
down when it is in front....
?
The other way you can do it (which works best with three) is again to have a 
trail that is wide enough for you to ride two abreast, have two horses ride in 
front next to each other and the third horse behind with all the horses going 
at the same speed, do this very briefly and then have one of the horses in 
front drop back and put the horse that was in back in front.? Each horse gets a 
turn at being behind, and each gets a turn at being in front.? These turns, 
especially to start with, need to be very short with slowly lengthening the 
time of each turn.? So, to start with the horse doesn't have to wait very long 
before it gets its turn, after the horse learns that it WILL get a turn, 
usually they figure out that it is less effort to wait their turn than to fight 
about it.
?
kat
Orange County, Calif.

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