what are the cues to use to gait a gaited horse
Question: This is my first TW and I don't know how to cue him into his gaits. How do I exercise that? I have ridden dressage and hunt seat with quarter horses and Thoroughbreds but, this is and then different. I alive way out in the country so I'm trying to teach myself. Do you know of any beginner TW books or videos on the market place? Besides, I've always ridden English. Are walkers mainly ridden Western style?
From Panelists Darla
Does your horse gait at all? They tin be ridden any fashion you prefer. Mostly
western or Saddleseat. I would demand more information to help you. Y'all can
contact me you want to get more into this. There is
a book called Gaits of Gold that would assistance you some. If you have a stiff
gaited TWH it should just become into the gait naturally. Try a light contact
with the mouth and lifting a little to support the caput then at the same time
cue with your legs to move forward. You lot should notice the gait in that location. Darla
From Panelist Nancy
How-do-you-do,
You lot have ridden dressage. Remember how y'all asked your horse to do an extended walk? That's just about what you volition do to enquire your horse to go into gait. Sit down on the saddle - with your legs and seat ask your horse to move on a bit more from a flat walk - hold him steady and directly with the reins, but keep him stretched out, relaxed and extended. Work on a stretched rein. At first, just enquire for a trivial - always working from a
nice, long-striding apartment walk. Over fourth dimension, keep request for a lilliputian more than. You will feel the rhythm of the walk change into the rhythm of the runnng walk. Don't attempt to go speed for quite a while. Simply enquire for a petty. If he breaks into a trot, end him and get-go over once more. Be sure and praise him when he starts to gait. Equally the work becomes easier for your horse, the speed volition come. Sometimes working in a circle, of perhaps a diameter of fifteen - xx
feet, using your inside leg and an open direct rein, with the horse very let down, is a expert practise to do while request him to motion. The fact that you are asking him to move on with your inside leg and bending him with an open up, direct rein should get the impulsion needed, simply at the same time continue him slightly off balance so that he won't break into a trot or canter.
As for riding Western or English - it doesn't matter. Recollect, good riding is the aforementioned whether y'all are in an English or Western saddle.
Good luck - and I'm guessing that yous'll soon be sailing along on your gaited horse (and that'southward what information technology will feel like!!).
Nancy Cade
From Panelist Laura
This is a tough question to answer, Walking Horses can practice many dissimilar gaits both smooth & bouncy - without knowing what gaits your horse is currently doing, it is very difficult to tell you how to inquire for a flat/running walk. Since your horse is only three 1/2 yrs old, yous should probably concentrate on getting him well-bankrupt. Teach him to give to the bit, teach him to collect, and do a lot of riding in a walk. Whenever you speed upwards slightly and the horse feels shine, praise and pet him. If he gets rough, either slow him downward until he is smoother, or ride him in rough ground/high weeds until the gait smooths out.
A lot of people ride gaited horses english language. However, this is generally saddleseat and not a forward or hunt seat. There are some people now riding gaited horses in a dressage saddle which allows yous to sit down more than an all purpose or jumping type of saddle. If yous have a dressage saddle which fits your horse, you might want to attempt that. Don't over-collect your horse. Almost TWH do all-time with their nose out a little.
In that location are several good tapes bachelor now. Catalogs from National Bridle Store & World Champion carry these tapes.
Laura
From Panelists Lee
First information technology would probably be a good idea for you to figure out what gaits he
does. Does he exercise a flat walk and a running walk? The apartment walk is a faster
longer reaching version of the ordinary walk y'all are accustomed to in other
horses. Faster thatn an extended walk in Dressage, only with a bit more than
rounding to his back. The running walk is only a faster still flat walk.
Success with cues for gait depend a lot on what the equus caballus knows. What is
the background of this horse? Some trainers accept their ain methods of
cueing gait .. if you can detect out from his previous owner what he has been
taught information technology will be a big assist. If that is not possible, then you will have
to approach him with standard aids and teach him to respond to them.
Assuming to begin with that yous are riding in a snaffle? Take light contact
with his oral cavity, hands low on either side of the withers. Ride at an ordinary
walk, keeping your hands still, non attempting to follow his oral fissure with
them. To put him into a flat walk, squeeze and so release with both
calves and push slightly with your seat, while still maintaining your
contact with his mouth. This should bring his nose toward vertical, and
increase his speed in the walk -- to about 5-half dozen mph. Ride him for a time in
this gait,(squeezing with your legs if he slows out of information technology, lightly reminding
him to slow downwards with vibrating contact if he goes too fast) so push him
out of information technology, the aforementioned way you asked for it in the kickoff place, by squeezing
and releasing with your calves to enquire for more speed, withal maintaining your
contact with his mouth.
That is about it, if the horse does a flat walk and running walk. (look at
video of him moving, the ii gaits look exactly like a walk, except they are
faster -- each hoof leaves the ground and sets down at even intervals the
way it does in an ordinary walk)
If he does another gait, yous will have to ask him to employ his body
differently to piece of work in the square flat walk or running walk. It depends on
which "other" gait he is doing how y'all ask. Again, have someone video you
riding him and run across what gait he is doing -- if he is pacey his legs on one
side will move forward together (right hind and correct forepart volition seem to
move at the same time, or near the same fourth dimension) -- if he is trotting, his
diagonal legs (correct hind, left front) will motility forward together.
In the case that he does either of these things, check out the archives and
see what has been suggested to solve those gait issues.
Lee Ziegler
Source: http://www.gaitedhorses.net/AskTheTrainer/TrainerAnswer48.html
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