Bridling can be difficult with a big horse so asking for the horse to lower his head is a prerequisite to relaxation whether it’s bitless or bitted. Here are some tips to help you and your horse with happy bridling.
- Shelley – HorseSavvy
Training Tip Video: “Sun cream application”
Some of us have horses with delicate muzzles that get quite burned in the heat of the sun. It can be very painful for the horse so we put sun cream on ours to help stop that but it can often be hard to get the cream on their noses. I recommend using kids sun cream with as high a factor as possible (50+) and without any fragrance and the technique I use is in the video below…
- Shelley – HorseSavvy
Field Agility 1
Moving on from arena agility where we gain confidence and our connection to our horse, we then went to Liberty Challenges, using our ability now to keep that connection without a halter and rope. This next stage moves us into a bigger space where we can not only test our connection together but allows us more freedom to use canter and more transitions. Enjoy 🙂
Obstacles are:
1) Pedestal: front feet on then walk over
2) Pole/Log: Sidle over then sidepass off
3) Trot poles x 6
3) Rope circle in canter to left and right
5) Under archway in trot
6) Fig 8 with 2 x jumps in trot and canter
7) Cone weave with 8 cones in trot
8) Curtain: Walk or trot under
9) Tarpaulin: walk/halt/backup/walk off
10) Round pens: Fig 8 canter with simple lead change
11) Scary Corridor: canter through
12) Tyre on rope: drag behind you then turn horse and drag whilst backing up
13) Familiarisation: extreme with 2 x flags
14) added extra to calmly walk through scary corridor to end 😉
- Shelley – HorseSavvy