Well, I posted about this in my other thread, My Little Arabian,
but I'll cross post it.
"My only concern now is teaching her to canter when the time comes. The only way that makes sense to me is being with another group of horses who then start to canter, because any other time I've asked for it "under saddle" she freaks out and hallows out because she doesn't understand. No one I've studied actually covers this in colt starting, they just assume with enough yelling and encouragement that the horse will break into a canter. Nope, she just breaks into a gods awful trot and threatens to flip out*.
Any TIPs for
the horse you can't run into a canter? "
We will have plenty of time, as I'm not going to canter until her gait is polished up, and that may take all summer.
*by flip out, she speeds up her trots, hallows further, throws her head up beyond average, tenses up, and generally goes beyond the point in which she's a working horse, but rather becomes a confused feral horse again, and I like to avoid that- especially since I have no saddle.
"My only concern now is teaching her to canter when the time comes. The only way that makes sense to me is being with another group of horses who then start to canter, because any other time I've asked for it "under saddle" she freaks out and hallows out because she doesn't understand. No one I've studied actually covers this in colt starting, they just assume with enough yelling and encouragement that the horse will break into a canter. Nope, she just breaks into a gods awful trot and threatens to flip out*.
We will have plenty of time, as I'm not going to canter until her gait is polished up, and that may take all summer.
*by flip out, she speeds up her trots, hallows further, throws her head up beyond average, tenses up, and generally goes beyond the point in which she's a working horse, but rather becomes a confused feral horse again, and I like to avoid that- especially since I have no saddle.
