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 Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2008 10:27 pm
So I'm training my horse to pick up his right lead, and I'm having some success, but he's fighting me mostly. I think he knows what I want him to do, but is choosing to not do it. He has picked it up a few times now within the first few tries, but every session after he'd done it twice it takes me 10+ breaking him back down into a trot and re-cuing him for the right lead to get him to pick it up a third time. I am doing other things in between lopes so he doesn't get bored.
Any ideas on what I can do to solve the attitude problem?
Note: he's 6 and I have to train him myself. I can't send him away to training and the owner of the barn I board at *really* doesn't like it when you bring in trainers -.-
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Posted: Tue Sep 02, 2008 9:09 pm
That could be his "bad/weak" side. Lots of horses have leads that they have difficulty picking up because they don't have the muscle for it or they are unbalanced - or a combination of the two.
Try working his right side quite a bit before asking for his right lead. He should get better in time, you just have to work with him on it.
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Posted: Tue Sep 02, 2008 9:33 pm
Yeah, his right side is definitely his bad side I've been working him mostly to the right to try to build up his muscle. I should have included that in my original post, sorry sweatdrop After a while of not working him to the left so much he's started picking up quicker the first two times I lope him to the right. The third time? That's where we're consistently running into problems. It never fails burning_eyes
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