help//advice needed with green horse!

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I am starting to school a very green horse and I need some help in ideas of exercises to do with him etc!
Anything that would help really, i will outline what he has done, what his bad points are etc, and hopefully all you clever people can give me a helping hand! i have brought on ponies before, but he is slightly bigger, and more confused!

4yo, 14.3 (And still growing) trotter x tb!
he can walk, trot and canter, and pop a small jump.
Walk is good, and he relaxes well within a few minutes.
Trot is iffy! he rides right along the fenceline (and me with sticky out feet is not good!) and he gets rather unbalanced especially on 20m circles unless he is being pushed very forward. (polework needed i think!)
Canter- is good after a bit, but his transitions are sod awful, and i was told to give my reins a little shake :S if he wont go into canter, something i would rather not do, as its not the proper aid!
because of the canter, he is now messing up his trot because he anticipates transitions, and also his canter is very unbalanced and sometimes he puts in a small buck just to correct his back legs, because being a trotter he tends to lengthen the trot with the back legs and canter with the front!
as for jumping, we are aiming to get him doin 2ft3 nicely this year, hes got a nice pop on his, but he is very wiggly even into a x pole!

so there we go! help, advice needed! i will try and get a video of me riding him (and it will look sod awful at the moment) so that you can all see!

Thanks everyone! ! Chloe x
 
I would totally forget about jumping fior the time being- he needs to be far more established on the flat first by the sounds of things.
Dont ride him on the track- always ride 1-2 m in from it so that he has to learn to go straight independant of the fence. Ride lots of corner lines to get him into the outside aids- IE turn at A and ride a straight line to B/E (depending which rein you're on)
Ride diamonds instead of circles- IE ride to four distinct points within youre 20m shape- one at A, one at X and the other 2 touching the fence at either side.
 
I agree with bossanova, Forget jumping until you have good established flatwork ... plenty of trotting and cantering poles by all means .... Get him to to do plenty of serpentines and using your inside like on corners getting him to bend, make sure you drop your inside hand but not too much incase he starts to fall in , If hes dead on transitions I would tend to use a schooling wipe to help back up your leg aids .

Good luck x
 
i cant forget about the jumping, much as i would like to, as he isnt actually mine, and she wants to jump him, so i think thats whats gona happen, although the next two months are gona be flatwork and poles only. playboy-i know i have to do flatwork, iv brought on youngsters before, but i need suggestions of exercises etc to do with him,
thanks everyone!! keep them coming
 
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