Re: American Pharoah x Careless Jewel filly freaks
Posted: Fri Sep 18, 2020 2:07 pm
I noticed the main head tossing when the rider pulled her to a stop or took up contact, not when she was jumping where she appeared more smooth.
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Tomay-to, tomah-to...balance and change of bend is also basic dressage, and it's being done for the same purpose. Everything starts with balance. Concur, however, that she's still green as grass, and what she learned from her training before racetrack debut was "run like hell" to the exclusion of all the other important instructions on how to be a saddle horse.katmandu wrote: ↑Fri Sep 18, 2020 7:04 pm The horse is crooked as hell and it's hard for her to negotiate corners of the radius that she is being asked. It is hard for her to step under with the inside hind to negotiate the curve in a balanced manner. So she loses her balance and tosses her head because the horse's neck is a balancing rod (sometimes she just swings her hindquarters out, different symptom, same problem). When he asks for a change of bend (figure 8), the same thing happens. But that is the point of the work, to strengthen her. Every correct step she takes strengthens her appropriately, but things take time. . . . That's not dressage work, that's baby horse/basic training. She's green as grass.
Della wrote: ↑Tue Sep 22, 2020 8:09 pm I am so impressed with how carefully and imaginatively they are retraining her. For all the folks who think that when a horse goes to Japan, nothing good will happen, ask how many USA trainers/owners would put this amount of time and training into a youngster. Maybe more than we know, and only the openness of Reframed connections is giving us a look into a process that happens more secretly in the US.
Anyway, I wish Reframe and her connections only the best as they go forward.
Yes, they are basically restarting her, taking her through the "breaking"/training steps and fixing holes or reestablishing responses. This is just basic starting a horse under saddle work. All my horses (warmbloods) were started by a person who worked for years starting racehorses and working young horses on the track. Through a series of events, too long to include here, he went into an independent business of his own, working out of a 100+ acre thoroughbred "nursery". He had developed a tremendous reputation locally as a person to start horses, and many people took their horses to him to start from multiple disciplines, particularly dressage/jumping/CT. The work is identical to what you see here, longlining in the round pen to longlining in the arena, establishing "steering" under saddle while carrying a rider's weight, and so on. The property was gorgeous, he would take young horses out along with river, etc. with his wife on a "pony" next to the horse to introduce to being ridden out in various scenery. He didn't work horses over small fences, at least not mine, although they were started from scratch and were with him for 6 weeks, so a slower/limited timeframe. I had one very hot, "strong" filly with him, I remember once when he was working her in the arena and she shied/jumped a shadow. He grimaced a little (I think because I was there), but didn't interact with her about it, and said to me, "that's just who she is". That's the type of horsemanship I appreciate and was very glad to be taking my horses to him.Della wrote: ↑Tue Sep 22, 2020 8:09 pm I am so impressed with how carefully and imaginatively they are retraining her. For all the folks who think that when a horse goes to Japan, nothing good will happen, ask how many USA trainers/owners would put this amount of time and training into a youngster. Maybe more than we know, and only the openness of Reframed's connections is giving us a look into a process that happens more secretly in the US.
Anyway, I wish Reframe and her connections only the best as they go forward.
I agree wholeheartedly. They have really gone above and beyond to resolve this issue.Della wrote: ↑Tue Sep 22, 2020 8:09 pm I am so impressed with how carefully and imaginatively they are retraining her. For all the folks who think that when a horse goes to Japan, nothing good will happen, ask how many USA trainers/owners would put this amount of time and training into a youngster. Maybe more than we know, and only the openness of Reframed's connections is giving us a look into a process that happens more secretly in the US.
Anyway, I wish Reframe and her connections only the best as they go forward.
Kurenai wrote: ↑Fri Sep 25, 2020 3:08 am![]()
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@ the trees. I did that once too, it's a nice exercise to make them "bendy"!
Also very wise to sometimes make the horse go a full circle around it (I wasn't when I did that the first time). Because some horses think it's fun to go faster and faster through it with left right let right left right.Imagine a dog in an agility course doing weave poles, you get the idea.
I have done it several times on a very handy horse.Retrospectiv wrote: ↑Fri Sep 25, 2020 6:34 pmKurenai wrote: ↑Fri Sep 25, 2020 3:08 am![]()
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@ the trees. I did that once too, it's a nice exercise to make them "bendy"!
Also very wise to sometimes make the horse go a full circle around it (I wasn't when I did that the first time). Because some horses think it's fun to go faster and faster through it with left right let right left right.Imagine a dog in an agility course doing weave poles, you get the idea.
Don't have to imagine a dog - pole bending with horses is an extremely popular sport in North America![]()
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYL6UVeM5pA
I had never seen that.Retrospectiv wrote: ↑Fri Sep 25, 2020 6:34 pmKurenai wrote: ↑Fri Sep 25, 2020 3:08 am![]()
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@ the trees. I did that once too, it's a nice exercise to make them "bendy"!
Also very wise to sometimes make the horse go a full circle around it (I wasn't when I did that the first time). Because some horses think it's fun to go faster and faster through it with left right let right left right.Imagine a dog in an agility course doing weave poles, you get the idea.
Don't have to imagine a dog - pole bending with horses is an extremely popular sport in North America![]()
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYL6UVeM5pA
Oh wow, I had no idea that exists!Retrospectiv wrote: ↑Fri Sep 25, 2020 6:34 pm
Don't have to imagine a dog - pole bending with horses is an extremely popular sport in North America![]()
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYL6UVeM5pA
Start at ~32 minutes for some really good mid-size dogs (border collie types), it's amazing, and the dogs' enthusiasm is wonderful to behold!Retrospectiv wrote: ↑Sat Sep 26, 2020 10:49 am I've seen the dogs do it. They make it look easy compared to doing it on a horse![]()