A Soft horse.
Where you realease is where you teach - so release when you have your horse doing what you want. Release his face or body or both. Release for the try. Learn to feel the footfalls and you’ll be even more successful!
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Cosmo 2/1/2023 (Speed control and MORE!)
Quite a few of the things I think about during a ride. Depending on the education of the horse they may vary.
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Cosmo, 2/1/2023
Plenty to be learned in this ride on my good mare, Cosmo. She’s 9 so she’s pretty far along, but even then, there’s always stuff we are working on fixing.
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Lateral Softness
EVERY horse, regardless of their discipline, needs lateral softness. You can’t get this too good. Here I explain the fundamentals of what you’re looking for.
Doodles is better to the left (with her form), than to the right, but she’s softer to the right. So we will keep working to balance her o...
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Doodles killing cats
Come watch me put a ride on Doodle Bug! 1/10/2023.
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Intermediate killing of the cats…
The minutia. Take 20 minutes and watch me put a ride on Issimo. 1/12/2023
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Rio, Killing Cats 1/11/2023
On a rehab horse.
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Building Lateral Softness in the Horse
1 season
This series will walk you through the steps of developing a soft, collected horse. You’ll watch full rides on a few horses in my string and some that are in for training here at the ranch. You won’t want to miss any of this if you want to up your barrel racing or horsemanship game.
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3 seasonsCosmo, DX And The city
3 seasons
2014 Mare By Poco Tivio Pep out of Fleefoots Dakota Sun by Dakota Kinger.
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Leg Yields and Lateral Work
Lateral work is one of the oft most overlooked tools a horse needs to have to be successful regardless of his career. It builds softness in their face, ribs, hips; the whole body.
It provides the basis for collection, proper form in the turn around and so much more. You cannot get a horse too s...
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Cosmo, killing cats, and a ride.
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Lateral Work from the Ground
How you start working on lateral softness from the ground.
