Training horse off the lunge
When your horse is happy, relaxed and you feel confident enough, get an assistant to take off the lunge line.
Practice walking and halting on the circle.
Remember to use your voice commands alongside your leg aids and rein aids.
Always work at the horses pace and never rush him.
Work in walk for a couple of days.
You need to get the horse walking on at a good pace, so you are looking for an active walk so the horse is using himself, before you move on to trot.
When the horse is ready you can work in trot for a short while.
Work in straight lines first then include trot in your turns and transitions from walk to trot.
Finally work on a circle in trot and also figure of eights.
When training a horse the work needs to be kept interesting.
If something is not going right, don’t keep practicing for hours on end.
The horse will loose interest and become bored.
Repeat exercises a few times then continue again the following day.
Set your self very small goals to work towards.
The horse must be kept willing and sweet.
Be aware of your horse’s body language when you get on it. It will let you know how it is feeling.
Signs of a worried horse
Eyes looking back at you.
Feels tense when you sit on it.
Ears are flat back facing you
Horse feels humpy
Horse's head raised high.
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Mountin the green horse for the first time.
Riding the green pony on a lung line.
Training the young horse to halt square and half halt.
Backing a horse
Cantering the newly backed horse
Working on the bit
Horse training voice commands
