Cloud9
Well-Known Member
Sorry guys - I know wrong area but more people read New Lounge. My horse has always been a terrible leaner but he seems to ge getting worse and worse. I am quite a novice - can hold my own on my own horse but don't compete - just happy hack and started fun rides. I have had lessons and schoold but just don't enjoy it. Prefer to school as I hack - leg yielding down the lanes, walk to trot, halt using the trees as my dressage markers!!!However he is getting worse and worse. Due to trial and error I have found that if I hold reins in one hand,very relaxed and western style he is great. However as soon as I take the reins into to down he goes - he yanks against me. Even if the reins are washing lines - he immediately starts leaning heavily. As soon as i put the reins into one hand he is fine again. Yet I can hold rens quite short in one western stye and he does not lean. Tonight I hacked and really made him work (he does not do it in trot) and testing my theory -but it is getting so frustrating. I let him have head and held reins on the buckle - gradually taking in rein - but he is stil leaning. Its dangerous to ride so relaxed all the time - I like to feel like I have control.
How can he possibly know when I alter my contact -he is ridden in a vulcanite pelham so its not like a jointed snaffle where he could possibly feel the change in rein contact.
PLEASE HELP - ADVICE GRATEFULLY RECEIVED.
How can he possibly know when I alter my contact -he is ridden in a vulcanite pelham so its not like a jointed snaffle where he could possibly feel the change in rein contact.
PLEASE HELP - ADVICE GRATEFULLY RECEIVED.