This message is from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In a message dated 5/3/99 7:36:32 Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
<< Please try keeping their head up(on the bit?), hind quarters underneath them (squeeze with your legs, equal pressure). I guess this will keep them on the bit? Maybe shorten up the reins. Shift your weight back some, maybe that will make them shift weight from fronts to hinds, & keep that head up too. >> Yep. Joel, you sound just like my riding instructor. I had a tb that was 16.3, and 3 years old. She had those super long legs and hadn't learned quite how to carry herself and me comfortably at that point. She stumbled frequently. I was told to literally hold her up. Using the methods you described above. Something else I've been thinking about that works is using cavaletti to get your horse thinking about where he/she puts his/her feet. It worked well on my little arab I had years back. Stumbled a lot when I first started riding him, the cavaletti work (and a lot of hill work) made him pretty sure footed after a while. Pamela
