Posts Tagged ‘lead’
Stacy’s Video Diary Jac-Episode 34-How a horse responds to a new rider.
Total training time: 143 hours At some point in their lifetime most horses are ridden by more than one rider. Up to this point I am the only one who has ridden Jac. In today’s episode my husband, Jesse, will ride Jac for the first time. I explain that I am planning on taking a trip…
Read MoreStacy’s Video Diary Jac-Episode 33- Behind the scenes look at horse training at an expo
Stacy’s Video Diary Jac-Episode 33- Behind the scenes look at horse training at an expo Total training time-139 hours 30 minutes When traveling with horses to shows, trail rides, clinics or expos it is often the ‘behind the scenes’ stuff that seasons them more that the event itself. Before the event even began I was…
Read MoreStacy’s Video Diary Jac-Episode 32-Using horse shows and trail rides as training.
The goal for Jac’s first horse show wasn’t to win a prize, the goal was to use the whole experience as a learning and training session. The atmosphere is a lot of the training; many horses around, warm up pen, bathing, riding, preparing, walking into the pen alone, odd hours, etc. Gathering information is key…
Read MoreStacy’s Video Diary: Jac- Episode 31- A horse with one year of training
Jac entered training in March of 2013. This footage was filmed over several rides in March 2014, one year later. Total Training Time 120-125 hours This video does a great job showing Jac’s physical training; lead changes, spins, slides and general understanding. What it doesn’t show as well is the mental connection. To see that…
Read MoreStacy’s Video Diary Jac- Episode 29- Teaching a horse to move hips
Total Training Time 78 hour 10 mins Look at how far Jac has come with just under 80 hours of training! I know it seems like I do this every episode but…again, I demonstrate how I warm Jac up and explain why I keep working on bending and counter bending…I want him to MASTER it.…
Read MoreStacy’s Video Diary: Jac- Episode 28- Jac goes to the All American Quarter Horse Congress 2013
Total training time- 65 hours 50 minutes Jac’s first trip to a horse show was a visit to the All American Quarter Horse Congress…during the freestyle reining. Jac wasn’t ready to show, but I wanted to introduce people to Jac…and introduce Jac to people. Jac’s training has progressed well to this point but I decided…
Read MoreStacy’s Video Diary: Jac- Episode 25-Changing bits & 2nd stage of spinning a horse
Total training time 42 hours 50 minutes Jac has had some time off because I took a ten day trip to visit family. I chose to move Jac to a twisted wire bit. As with any bit it is as harsh as the hands that use it. I changed bits because Jac doesn’t have the…
Read MoreMy horse struggles with changing leads from left to right.
Stacy-My gelding is 9 and has had a difficult time learning a flying change from left to right. He has a very nice, easy change right to left. He feels like we are teaching a right handed hitter to hit left handed. He has been off a year due to an injury and is now…
Read MoreStacy’s Video Diary: Jac- Episode 24-teaching a horse to spin (day 1) and improving steering
Total Training Time- 40 hours 30 minutes In this video I talk about spurs, moving a horses shoulder (spiral out), improving steering and beginning to teach Jac to spin. I began riding Jac with spurs around 30 hours of training by using a simple slip on English type nub spur. Around 40 hours of training…
Read MoreStacy’s Video Diary: Jac- Episode 23- Spurs, backing up, shoulder control and natural horsemanship
Training time 33 hours 40 minutes I did end up taking Jac to the vet just to be on the safe side. I had given him time off and Jac was pretty much better so the vet couldn’t find anything. The vet told me to give him a couple more weeks off and then start…
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