nhg
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Post by nhg on Nov 9, 2014 16:05:06 GMT
As I've mentioned, my daughter has a young horse she's training. She wants to compete on her at an amateur level and is open to a few different disciplines. Because of that she'd like to have her horse do what she'd like to do. Reining, working cowhorse, whatever she'd be best suited for. Just no barrel racing because it so often turns them into nutbars and she still wants to show her in local shows. She'll have her as an all around horse that has fun but just wants to really focus on one thing.
Any suggestions as to how you figure out what your horse prefers? At this time of year there's not much going on so it's hard to find activities to just try.
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Post by 1fatmule on Nov 9, 2014 21:36:35 GMT
I am by no mean's a trainer, nor do i play one on tv, but maybe have her expose her horse to a couple of thing's your daughter is most interested in? no pressure on her young 633995 horse, but maybe letting the horse observe some different activities she could get an idea of the young horse's reaction, and watch it's ear's, and overall interest. funny but when george watched horse's hauling log's, he decided it was going to be what he was going to be doing for a living, and would still rather do that at almost 20 yrs. old. yeah, winter rain does put a limit on what can be done, especially to avoid boredom.
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Post by diamondgirl on Nov 10, 2014 0:14:40 GMT
I think Diamond would have made a good cow horse. She likes to move the boys, and will often put one of them in a corner, and keep them there. Of course she would need a lot of training, because if Chief or Stormy get pushy about getting out of the corner, she will spin around, and threaten them with a double barrel kick when they try to escape. I don't think that would be acceptable for a cow horse. She has cow horses in her breeding. What kind of disciplines was your Daughters horses ancestors involved in? Maybe that would give her some ideas to look at.
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Post by horselady on Nov 10, 2014 1:31:36 GMT
I give your daughter a lot of credit for realizing that a horse kinda picks out what it like to do. but we also want that horse to do things it does not like. The best thing for your daughter to do is to work on one thing at a time. let's say for a week. try one thing. than go for a trail ride or fun stuff, than the following work session try something else. why not just have this horse play and work at all different things. and she can throw some barrels in to that mix just for fun.
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