Advanced Trot Pole Exercise # 3
Here is a trot pole exercise that will improve your horse's balance and suppleness, while challenging your ability to maintain the quality of your trot through changes of bend.
Here is a trot pole exercise that will improve your horse's balance and suppleness, while challenging your ability to maintain the quality of your trot through changes of bend.
For the horse, the learning happens on the release of the aid. That means if you don't release the aid, the horse will not learn.
"Don't take the tempo down without revving the engine." ~ Chris Bartle
I don't even think about aiming a young or green horse at a jump until I have them 100% in front of my leg on the flat. If you do, and the horse thinks about stopping, you will have no recourse, and will end up teaching him that
From Facebook fan Joan Dunlap ~ "Fix your position first... then the horse will adjust theirs."