Sandy Collier – You’ve been working all along on encouraging your horse to stay framed-up even when you put slack in the reins. By now he...
Sandy Collier “Rounding” the Circle In the exercise, Baseball Diamond, you worked on steering by leaving out a base and cutting across to overcorrect a drift....
Sandy Collier – Reining patterns typically call for large, fast circles (executed at a gallop), and small slow circles (at a controlled lope). Circles on both...
You began work on softness, and you continued it in the collection work. In spite of all that, your horse still doesn’t seem to be “getting”...
This exercise calls for you to ride a pattern that will approximate the petals of a daisy. Begin at a trot on a straight line. As...
I’ll describe this exercise, then provide trouble-shooting information (because you’ll be working to develop collection and steering). As you work on this exercise, remember to “ask”...
The goal of steering is to get your horse’s feet to follow his nose. In other words, his nose—and not his shoulder—should lead all changes of...