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Our new series of articles featuring Dew Drop Inn Farm's, Abbey Williams.
Abbey does training for Western Pleasure, Trail, Hunter Pleasure driving and jumping. She has a quiet and calm training method with the horses comfort being of upmost importance.
Abbey is currently taking reservations and bringing in horses to train that are starting from scratch or ones that have some training already behind them. In this series Abbey will show us the training of NT Scarlets Legacy. The second chapter of the journal will show the beginnings of Abbey riding and working Legacy in the round pen.
This is the second article in Abbeys training journal.
The second part of training is where I am gonna hop up on Legacy for the first time. Once the round pen work is established and he trusts me, then there should be no problem hopping up on him. When I mount him for the first time, I take my time and let him know what my intentions are, I put my left foot in the stirrup and when I go up to mount him I just stand there a bit, putting all my weight in the stirrup, and slowly throw my leg over. I sit there awhile before asking him to go forward. I rub him good all over and let him know he is a good boy I stand up and down a few times to make sure he knows where I am. To get him going forward I simply look where I want to go and squeeze a little with my legs, I also cluck to him . The cluck should be established with moving forward in the first part of the round pen training. So he knows the cluck means go. Once he's moving forward, I let him go really in any direction he wants to, just so he's moving forward with the squeeze and cluck. I also start teaching him to stop, by letting off the pressure with my legs and simply saying whoa. He knows what whoa means from stage one in the round pen. Once I can get him to go forward and to stop, I'll start asking him to turn left and right using my leg and direct rein. Once I get simple direction changes and can stop and start up again, then I ask for a little bit of the trot, by using a little more leg pressure and a little more clucking, I also might from time to time have to give him a little tap on the shoulder with my hand just to get him to move forward into the trot. Of course, during all of this I give lots of praise when he's listening and obeying me. I repeat this everyday until we get it down pat.
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Part two, time to mount up and ride
Part five (coming soon!)
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