Safe ‘n’ Sound around your horse
Guiding principles, ideas and exercises for you and your horse
Safe ‘n’ Sound in, Catching
- Enter your horse’s yard, approach behind the shoulder and scratch on the withers
- Hug your horse with your right arm
- Tip the nose with your right thumb
- Tie your halter with a horseman’s knot
Safe ‘n’ Sound in, Leading
- Show that your comes off pressure with your lead rope
- Lead your horse forward 3 steps and backup without looking
- Lead your horse through a figure 8 pattern
- Lead your horse at your shoulder to the mounting area
Safe ‘n’ Sound in, Tying up & Grooming
- Tying to a solid rail
- Tying with Machete reins
- Tying to bailing twine
- Tie to a tree
- Take a rug off and on
- Pickup all feet from NS and clean out the hooves
Safe ‘n’ Sound in, Bridling & Saddling
- Ask for your horse’s head down with the lead rope
- Ask for your horse’s head down with 2 fingers and a hand on your lead
- Ask for your horse’s head down with 2 fingers on the poll
- Run your hand over your horse’s head, ears & muzzle without any defensive reactions
- Use the 7 steps to bridling process including remove your rope halter
- 7 steps to saddling
Safe ‘n’ Sound in, Mounting & dis-mounting from either side of your horse
- Stand parallel to your horse and rock your saddle from side to side to square up your horse’s feet
- Turn towards your horse’s head and tip your horse’s nose to the left with your left rein
- Take a mane and rein hold with your left hand, hold the back or cantle of the saddle
- Swing up half way, turn your belly button to the front of the horse
- Rub on your horse and swing your leg over gently into the saddle
- Sit and do nothing
- Emergency dismount
- Mounting from the fence
- Mounting from a step
Safe ‘n’ Sound in, your Posture & Seat position
- Positioning yourself in the saddle so no loss of energy can take place for the horse
- 4 seat positions. Front of pelvis, seat bones, pockets with no arch in your back and scissoring your hips
- 3 rein positions for green horses
- Rub your horse’s dock
- Windmills at the walk
- Rise to the walk
- Stand in your stirrups
Safe ‘n’ Sound in, Bending & Moving off
- Tip your horse’s nose only with a timed release (TR)
- Bend your horses head laterally both directions with a timed release
- Create a dependable connection between the riders inside leg and the horses inside hind legs by
Tipping the nose and roll the hindquarters
- Pickup an inside rein, lift vertically and hold. Wait until the connection of the rein is made to the hindquarters and use a timed release
- Picture your departure in your mind, focus on where you’re going, lift and make contact, use a TR when you have unification with the feet
- Tip your horse’s nose only with a timed release (TR) to a stop
Challenge yourself on obstacles
TEST FOR YOUR ABILITY
- Can you approach your horse from behind the shoulder and rub the wither
- Hug your horse and tie up your halter
- Hug your horse and tie up your halter
- Find your horse’s itchy spot by rubbing your horse all over with your whip, halter & lead rope
- Throw your lead over your horses back
- Back your horse 3 steps straight towards 6 o’clock
- Send your horse out to the RIGHT for 1 circle at the walk
- Get our horse to face up to you so that the horse’s head is on 12 o’clock & hind legs are on 6 o’clock
- Then bring your horse into you from the end of your lead and re-enforce the trust me, trust my equipment
Please contact:
Jo Sheval for more details
0478 7111 80
45 Connors Lane, Seville VIC 3139, Australia