Dogs on a Jump
Will your horse clear these pooches??
Archive for May, 2009
Stop the Horse from Wringing his Tail
At a recent clinic, Rex Peterson introduced this Ancora to a Grand Prix dressage horse who wrings his tail in piaffe and passage.
This simple device known as the Ancora, will help your horse stop wringing his tail, thus putting all his energy into his work. The bells on the bottom also teach him to not be afraid of anything behind him. You must ride your horse with this for a minimum of 10 days so that he learns that every time he lifts his tail it cannot go anywhere, eventually he will not even try to swing it. Trick ropers ride their trick horses in this for the first 2 years of training so that the ropes never get caught under the tails. Horses trained for the movies all learn to ride with this as part of their desensitizing routine.
Breaking Young Horses to Saddle
Last weekend we broke 2 young horses to accept the saddle and rider. Here you can see Rex controlling this young gelding for his first ride. Steele stays close to Cache as he learns to accept the aids from the rider. Rex is able to stop the horse from bucking or rearing with the neck rope so that he never learns these bad habits.
Horse Training to an Extreme
Check out this new Youtube video of Rex Peterson working Tuff at Liberty
Teaching a horse to trust and work this well takes hours and hours of patience.
Tuff Performs at Quarterfest
We just returned from a successful weekend in Nashville, TN where the AQHA hosted the first of many Quarterfest Events honoring the Quarter Horse from many aspects of the horse world. Reining, roping, mounted shooters, trail classes and amazing performances each evening kept us all busy each day. Tuff (from the films Flicka, Van Helsing, Appaloosa) and Cache (Viggo’s mount in Appaloosa) performed each evening in a liberty act , amazing the audience with a display of control of each horse with Rex using only body movements and the whips to guide his horses.