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  1. Training, Performance, behavioral concerns/queries
    Hi, I am a 19 year old college student who has owned my mare for about 5-6 years. Over that time frame I feel like she has gotten worse and worse. She started out great a little speedy but she could do all three gaits well! I took lessons and we seemed to be doing well. We showed great for the...
  2. Trail Riding
    *Hi there, I got my first horse four months ago. She's a 4yo cob, 14.2hh.* Things are going really well for us, only now I've started hacking with friends and not the school rides. I remember the first and only time I cantered with her back just a week before I got her. Since I have stuck to...
  3. Show Jumping and using jumping in training
    I've been riding ponies my whole life and lately, I have switched to my first horse. Things are going great but my mare happens to have a VERY heavy head and when I land after jumps, she pulls me down and totally wreaks my position, and obviously, I can't have that happen in the hunter ring. How...
  4. Training, Performance, behavioral concerns/queries
    My daughter has a little pony, 14 hands or so. She is gentle and sweet. The problem is she drops her head to the ground to eat and graze. She literraly pulls the reins right out of my 39 pound 5 year olds hands. Once the reins dropped down her neck, she stepped on them, popped her head up...
  5. Show Jumping and using jumping in training
    I ride a paint, about 16 years old, completely sound and a pretty good boy. Today, I was jumping him at about 2 ft. I have done this plenty of times in the past with no problems. I've taken him to jumping shows, etc, and he's always been great. So today, after the jumps, he kept putting his...
  6. Training, Performance, behavioral concerns/queries
    My horse is a 5 year old and I have been having problems getting him to keep his head down on the bit, and it is only with trotting. When trotting to the left, with suppling he will usually bend and keep his head down. To the right, he is constantly tossing his head up and will not go down on...
  7. General Riding queries
    Help...We have a lovely 10.2 shetand X only problem is my 4 year old daughter is just learning to ride and whenever we ask him to go from trot to canter either on the long rein (with my running frantically behind trying to keep up!) or on the lunge (with me turning ever decreasing circles in the...
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